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Case Dropped Against La. Ag Commissioner { Dem. Bob Odom }
AP via SFGate ^ | 2/26/7 | MELINDA DESLATTE

Posted on 02/26/2007 4:12:19 PM PST by SmithL

Baton Rouge, La. (AP) -- A judge cited problems with the prosecution and threw out all charges against the state agriculture commissioner on Monday as jury selection was to begin in his bribery and money-laundering case that has dragged on for more than four years.

"It needs to be over," State District Judge Don Johnson said as he dismissed six charges against Bob Odom, one of the state's top Democratic powerbrokers.

Odom, 71, had been accused of taking bribes from a warehouse owner seeking food-storage contracts, having state-owned pine seedlings planted on his property, and laundering campaign money through his church to pay personal expenses.

He was indicted in 2002 on 21 charges. . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: bobodom; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals

1 posted on 02/26/2007 4:12:23 PM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Does anyone see a problem here? Can Tom Delay's case be moved to that district? I think it is time that that case is over with, as well.


2 posted on 02/26/2007 4:22:48 PM PST by SusaninOhio
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To: SmithL
Democrats sure are lucky in places like Louisiana
3 posted on 02/26/2007 4:33:19 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: muir_redwoods

...and all the other 49 states and DC.


4 posted on 02/26/2007 4:36:03 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: SmithL; All

http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=6143816

thedeadpelican.com

more...


5 posted on 02/26/2007 4:42:16 PM PST by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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self-ping.


6 posted on 02/26/2007 7:34:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Thursday, February 19, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SmithL

Ah, gotta just love the party of ethics. Procedure= stall, stall, toss it out, clean slate. Gotta get Libby, gotta get Libby. Concentrate on priorities.


7 posted on 02/26/2007 11:01:41 PM PST by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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