By Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 14, 2007; A01

A Depression-era program to bring electricity to rural areas is using taxpayer money to provide billions of dollars in low-interest loans to build coal plants even as Congress seeks ways to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Follow the Money.
Cummins was the first ouster, a case involving Tampa Electric is underway.

Bud Cummins was the federal prosecutor for said district.

He was the first attorney removed.

The issue dealt with a state taxing lien good for bond issues for a waiver period of startup. payout time came and bsucho. folks at Tampa Power backed out.

Federal case, reaching back to Jeb’s state.

Josh Marshall counts 10: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/014096.php

Harper’s counts 13: http://harpers.org/archive/2007/05/hbc-90000053

http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1178701484575

U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and served as U.S. attorney for Rhode Island from 1994 to 1998.

The same Sheldon Whitehouse who has already brought up, using visual aid charts, that WH and DOJ people allowed to talk about cases used to be 4 and 3, and now it’s up to 417 and 42. But there’s more.

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/5/10/203543/539

I didn’t watch the hearing today, didn’t think my stomach could take another dose of his lies… I did view the highlights online, and must say, I didn’t miss much… Totally Incompetent. Also, RT GonzoGate, there are more and more dots leading directly to the WH… How can we get our Reps to get it in gear and Impeach the whole cabal… No one, except perhaps someone on some deserted island, can deny that a coup has occurred. Impeachment is the answer, unless the plan is to incite rioting here, to declare marshall law…

Also, just want to comment on General Batiste’s new video ad for Votevets.org He really tells it like it is, and I heard he has been fired from his consultant job on CNN or one of MSNBC rivals… the power of bushco extends even after the General retired from active service. He might get charged with sedition if bushco hold true to their pattern…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMPIi03wSfY

http://www.evergreenpolitics.com/ep/2007/05/us_attorneys_ro.html

Classic Serengetti- get letterhead or photocopy it, then submit it as an actual request via mail.

Mail fake registration address changes of real voters, don’t forward it, have it sent back as returned mail and use it to scrub voters rolls.

Patent felony mail fraud on a class action level.”
(previous thread from this site: http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/04/norah_odonnell_.html
originally on
the Norah O’Donnel thread)

The only correction to review is that the Arkansas Sec.Of State, not the State AG, was the one who got tangled in the Diebold/ES&S kickback scheme to the point they were sentenced. I have suspiscion that person may have actually been witness to something, and turned on by the voting scammers when they tried to whistleblow. It does appear several major vote software fraud schemes unraveled in the past few years though, so it was probably par for the course. It would be sweet to see Ronnie Earle called as material witness from Texas if the Arkansas vote fraud case was moved forward.

Patent Mail Fraud is again the most easy item to prosecute. Then it ties back to voting software, TRUMPAC/Abramoff/DeLay, and several trust suits for oil and gas, timber leases, along with gambling lobby interests.

It’s my assertion that some of the people who did cite “money concerns” as attorneys or DoJ people were in Abramoff’s hip pocket and roiled in casino debt so big they were conflicting their jobs to even higher levels.

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. FBI and RICO statutes could come into play heavy quite soon for that reason on top of all the other pending law enforcement cases connected to Bushco. and the attorney firings.

The GOP candidate in the Arkansas First District is part of an ongoing FBI himself. Stubby Stumbaugh, a former cop with a history of disciplinary review, was the candidate vs. Dem. Rep. Marion Berry.

Wiki has a nice summation of the Diebold subsidiary voting software scandal.

Again this returns the
circle via Unisys to an international impact with ES&S, whose company Chavez is extremely antagonistic towards after vote discrepencies in Venezuela.

Among the examples provided were bribery convictions in TX and AR.
“Sample cases – (1) Sequoia attempted bribery at a luncheon hosted by Salvatore Reale, a Gambino underboss who later pled guilty to racketeering, New York City, (2) Company’s founder, Lloyd A. Dixon Jr. indicted by federal grand jury for bribing Buffalo election officials, (3) Company fined nearly $50,000 for bribing Texas and Arkansas officials, (4) Next owner of Sequoia Pacific, financier Louis Wolfson became convicted of bribing the only Supreme Court Justice ever forced to resign in disgrace, (5) Louisiana’s Commissioner of Elections Jerry Fowler convicted of taking as much as ten million dollars over a period of a decade from Sequoia’s Southeast Representative, a man named Pasquale “Rocco” Ricci, from New Jersey. (6) US Attorneys refused or unable to “confirm or deny” if Ricci was connected to organised crime.”

There’s some interesting points worth covering. Example three, I know for certain has been confirmed. It is relevant in the Cummins ouster, because it’s pretty apparent that much back channel pressure was in play going into ’04 and immediately after.

Put them in orange jump suits and I’d say that the imagery is perfect.

http://www.reflectivepundit.com/reflectivepundit/2007/05/gonzales_wont_i.html

It really upsets me to read in the Seattle Times, which credits the NYT for the discovery:

“the deportation of a legal immigrant who mistakenly filled out a voter-registration card while waiting in line at the department of motor vehicles.”

There’s something so cruel, so base, so criminal about doing this to a person who simply made an error.

The people responsible deserve special punishment. I often fantasize about the best punishment for Bush, Cheney, Rove, et al.

I always start with having them — every day for the rest of their lives — change the diapers, feed, and bathe the soldiers with such hopeless brain damage that they’ll never be alright.