Posted on 01/25/2009 5:49:31 AM PST by bergmeid
Provides an insight as to why Blago's lawyer quit.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Go Blago Go!
Hear, hear!
I predict Obrother will somehow prevent the truth from coming out.
This is going to end badly! I can’t wait!!!!!!
hopefully, blago has lots and lots and lots of information about arrogant liberal democrat antics. he’ll hopefully expose information that will expose them for the spiteful, greedy, power-hungry adolescent punks that they are.
IMHO
Obamacide? Blago clipped by a car while on one of his jogs I would guess...
Blago is suppose to be on Larry King Live on Monday night.
For the first time in my life, I going to watch Larry King.
You're such an insignificant lightweight, Rod they can get rid of you the without using extraordinary means.
Nah, nah, nah, nah...hey, hey, hey...GOODBYE.
Hopefully he'll spill lots of beans, but he'd better watch his back. For shanks and other such implements.
Hee, hee
Mark your calendars for April. That’s when this spectacle gets traction again (per Fitzie, the US AG). And keep reading John Kass in the Chicago Tribune as he seems to have excellent inside information.
Whoa! there little fellow....Dare say the lines are being drawn as we type! Blago is connected also.
Hopefully he will play this hand out as Kass suggested and show up Monday during the legislature meeting.
Blago may be just another rotten apple on the tree but there are still a lot of rotten apples hanging with him.
He’s not a Harvard man, but just from what and how he has defended himself so far, his IQ is right up there and this has become quite interesting!
From the article: It was the governor's loud demand to call the president's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, as a witness that made the real news. Gov. Nosferatu's criminal defense attorney was Edward Genson, whose job it was to hold the governor's hand and keep him quiet, just as Genson kept Larry Warner, the corrupt pal of former Gov. George Ryan, quiet. But Nosferatu's demands about Emanuel forced Genson to fire himself from the case.
I urge everyone to read the article--there's lots more info on why Kass has changed Governor Dead Meat's nickname to Governor Nosferatu.
For the record I believe Blago (and his wife) is as dirty and corrupt as any of the Chicago cesspit players, but to deny him the ability to call witnesses in his own defense is appalling. Obviously it's because all the OTHER corrupt filth know that they will be exposed if Blago is allowed a fair trial.
Where are all the goo-goos who whine that al Qaeda killers at Gitmo deserve fair trials in our system; shouldn't they be calling for a fair trial for US state governor...
Re: Larry King ... I am a relatively new Dish Network subscriber and don’t have any kind of a TV Guide. Would you be so kind as to tell me where and when on Monday nite Larry King is on? Is he with CNN?
Thanks!!
g in az
I think he does (blago has lots and lots and lots of information about arrogant liberal democrat antics) since that can explain why they want to get him out so fast.
That guy Kass really has a style in writing columns, I found this informative -and- entertaining, lol
Go Blago GO!
Another Cook (Crook)County IL Democrat finest judges that money can buy keeps her pay.
Secret discipline of $150,000-a-year DUI judge ‘could take two years’
(http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1395483,012509mcginnisfolo.article)
January 25, 2009
By KIM JANSSEN, Staff Writer
She quietly pleaded guilty to drunken driving and was sentenced on the day President Obama was inaugurated.
But it may be another two years before Cook County Judge Sheila McGinnis is disciplined by the authorities who oversee Illinois judges - if they discipline her, according to the executive director of the Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board.
McGinnis on Tuesday dodged a potential one-year jail term when she admitted drunkenly crashing her Chevrolet sport utility vehicle into the back of a family-of-four’s minivan May 9 in Tinley Park.
With the attention of the Southland and the world focused on Washington, D.C., Judge Edward Burmila fined McGinnis $1,000, ordered her to complete an 18-month probation stint, to attend counseling and to attend a victim impact panel during a brief hearing at the Markham courthouse.
The sentence was normal for a first-time offender, Burmila said.
But McGinnis, a cousin of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, continues to draw a $150,000 judge’s salary from the county. She was transferred from a criminal courtroom to administrative duties at the Daley Center after her arrest last summer.
Secrecy governs the process by which judges are disciplined in Illinois, meaning the JIB cannot reveal if an official complaint has been made against McGinnis in her role as a judge, JIB executive director Kathy Twine said.
The board has the power to refer judges’ cases to the Illinois Court Commission, which can censure, suspend or dismiss judges.
A SouthtownStar survey of Illinois Court Commission records shows that not one of the eight Illinois judges investigated for DUIs since 1973 has been removed from the bench for even one day.
Seven of the drunken-driving judges were reprimanded.
Just one, Robert D. Law, who allegedly was involved in three drunken-driving incidents, was censured, in 1974.
Twine declined to say how long it would take for McGinnis’ case to be dealt with, or even if a complaint has been made, but she added, “some cases take a year, or two years - it depends on the circumstances.”
Asked if a DUI case could take two years, Twine said, “it depends on the circumstances.”
Raymond McGury, one of six members of the JIB who will rule on McGinnis’ case if a complaint is made, said he would “not expect” a DUI to result in a judge’s dismissal.
He was not familiar with McGinnis’ case and could not comment on it directly, he said.
McGinnis first indicated on Nov. 14 that she would plead guilty. It was her fifth appearance in court on the DUI charge, just 10 days after voters retained her in the Nov. 4 election.
She refused a Breathalyzer test at the scene of the accident and was still trying to leave when police arrived, prosecutors said.
After her conviction Tuesday, she dodged a waiting press photographer at the Markham courthouse by using a rear exit reserved for judges and police.
Her attorney, Jeff Aprati, said he had “no idea” the Jan. 20 court date would coincide with Obama’s inauguration when he requested the date Nov. 14.
McGinnis is “an excellent judge” who is “absolutely morally qualified” to remain on the bench, he said.
In 20 years of defending misdemeanor DUI cases, he had never encountered a drunken driver who lost his or her job because of a conviction, he said.
He added, “except for maybe a truck driver who needed his license.”
McGinnis has legally been allowed to drive since having her license restored in December.
Kim Janssen can be reached at kjanssen@southtownstar.com .
“mark your calendars for april.”
very interesting. please explain.
thanks in advance.
Obrother is going to have a fulltime job keeping all these Chicago thugs quiet.
Come and watch the show.... (Emerson Lake & Palmer)?
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