The average congressman or woman, even the Democrats, looks like Mother Teresa when compared to Trafficant. The guy is a criminal and nothing in the article undermines that.
Why do you fawn over Mr Roadkill? Because he got a Nazi released from Israeli jail, because he bad mouthes the IRS and "the government." Sure he's made some good votes over the years but got paid real well off the books for his efforts. Maybe that kind of behavior is okay in Ohio or wherever you live, but not in most parts of this country.
If he really was innocent, a real lawyer like like Joe Di Genova could have gotten him off easily. He would have made mince meat of the prosecutions case. So you either have Trafficant as fool for being his own attorney or he's really guilty and he just assumes that you and enough other "aginers" are foolish enough to believe him. So who is the fool, you are your hero?
Demjanjuk wasn't a Nazi. He was caught up in the rolling tide of the war. Many Ukranians were forced to work for the Germans as slave loborers, although there were some who enthusiatically cooperated with them out of sympathy for Nazism. I don't think Demjanjuk was one of the latter. Most likely he worked for the Germans as many folks did out of having to earn a living during those times. In any case, he was a relatively low level worker. I have read that he served as a camp guard but that could also have meant that he was just a worker whose occasional duties included that. In any event, he definitely was NOT Ivan the Terrible as was alleged. The Israeli Supreme court, to their credit, recognized the weight of the evidence and released Demjanjuk.
I have notes but don't want to look it up. Mr.Detore paid his lawyers $450,000 and then the one that told him in Feb. 2001, that the "administration wants him out", quit him, without telling him. he said they kept asking him (Detore) if he knew what Traficant had said about Janet Reno. He didn't know what they were talking about.
Did you hear that?
So, do you think Traficant would have got off if he had hired a lawyer?
Richard Detore, also fighting the Government paid, $240,000 and then his lawyer quit him.
He seemed to do very well without a lawyer at the hearings.
Oh, nevermind, most folks had rather watch somthing else.