JAN 5 20101. Morass in Alabama’s Middle District
2. Why Is Paul Minor Still Behind Bars?
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1. Morass in Alabama’s Middle District
by By Joe Palazzolo for Main Justice
The White House is having trouble finding a replacement for
controversial U.S. Attorney Leura Canary in Alabama’s Middle District,
having considered and discarded three candidates over the last year,
according to Alabama Democrats.
Both Republicans and Democrats have objected to different
candidates, and the White House has been unwilling to cross the
state’s powerful GOP senators, according to a Democrat who has
spoken to administration officials about the matter. The result has
been the continued service of Canary, a bête noire of Alabama
Democrats for her prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don
Siegelman (D), while the administration now considers a fourth
candidate.
Over the summer, the White House eliminated white-collar defense
lawyer Joe Van Heest of Montgomery, even though he’d already been
fully vetted, the Alabama Democrats said.
Van Heest met objections from Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, the
ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs
Committee...
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2. Why Is Paul Minor Still Behind Bars?
By Brendan DeMelle for Huffington Post
....Minor has spent the past three years a political prisoner, left to rot
in jail after partisan operatives in the Bush administration targeted him
for being the top funder of Democratic candidates in Mississippi.
Minor was convicted in 2007 along with John Whitfield and Walter
"Wes" Teel, the Mississippi Democratic judges he was wrongly
accused of bribing through campaign contributions that were perfectly
legal and common practice among donors of all political persuasions
in the state. Among the charges against Minor were federal bribery
and honest services fraud, for which Minor received a draconian 11-
year sentence that he is now serving at federal prison camp in
Pensacola, Florida.
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