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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">oops 2x</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">lots of hmmn</font></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 20px -2.13px; font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(48, 49, 51); --baseline-multiplier: 0.22; letter-spacing: -0.015em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Congress must impeach Siegelman’s judge,&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Mark Fuller" data-termid="14105" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/mark-fuller/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Mark Fuller</a></span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; transition-duration: 200ms, 200ms, 200ms; transition-delay: initial, initial, initial; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color;"><a class="highslide" href="http://constantinereport.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Judge_Fuller_21.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);" /></span>The Obama Justice Department lost any credibility in&nbsp;November by opposing Supreme Court review of former Alabama Gov.&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="post_tag" title="Don Siegelman" data-termid="814" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/tag/don-siegelman/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Don Siegelman</a>’s 2006 conviction on the bogus corruption charges that authorities filed against him during the Bush era.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Under President Obama, Bush holdovers are still helping Siegelman’s corrupt trial judge,&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Mark Fuller" data-termid="14105" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/mark-fuller/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Mark Fuller</a>, cover up a massive conspiracy by rogue federal prosecutors and&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Karl Rove" data-termid="7522" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/karl-rove/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Karl Rove</a>, whose diabolical schemes to corrupt Alabama politics pre-dated his Bush White House jobs.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You’re about to read my eyewitness account of a real-life John Grisham novel about my hometown of </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Enterprise, Alabama. I share that hometown with&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" data-termid="14105" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/mark-fuller/" data-title="Mark Fuller" title="Mark Fuller" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Mark Fuller</a>, whose father and mine comprised part of the notorious Dixie Mafia whose drug-running, arms-smuggling and gambling operations play a huge role in the state’s politics and economy.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Right now, a&nbsp;casino in nearby Dothan and its related scandals is the biggest issue in the state’s governor race.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Of even greater significance is that&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Mark Fuller" data-termid="14105" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/mark-fuller/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Mark Fuller</a>&nbsp;presides as chief federal judge in the middle district of Alabama, continuing to abuse his vast powers. Most dramatically, he refuses to recuse himself from continuing to rule over Siegelman, whom he helped railroad into prison and solitary confinement -- and whom Fuller hates with a passion over a longtime grudge.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This constitutes a challenge not just for those of us in Alabama living in this corrupt system, but for everyone in the United States who wonders why the&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="post_tag" title="Obama administration" data-termid="1004" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/tag/obama-administration/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Obama administration</a>&nbsp;continues to resist this travesty of justice in the most infamous U.S. prosecution of the decade, which has escalated to the status of an international human rights disgrace.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For these reasons, the House Judiciary Committee must restore public confidence promptly by launching an impeachment investigation of this trial judge regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on Siegelman’s plea for justice.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">* One focus should be on Judge Fuller’s long-running help for what Justice Department Chief of Staff&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Kyle Sampson" data-termid="9325" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/kyle-sampson/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Kyle Sampson</a>&nbsp;described in 2005 to Rove’s office as the “loyal Bushies.” They included federal prosecutors nationwide who were framing Siegelman and other Democrats to remove them from office.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Another focus must be on Fuller’s already documented fraud seeking $300,000 from Alabama’s taxpayers in a scheme involving <b>Doss Aviation, Inc., the former drug-smuggling company that Fuller controls as its largest stockholder.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* I am among the many who will step forward to testify on these matters. But first, the Judiciary Committee must take the lead to holding public hearings calling these criminals to testify in public alongside whistleblowers. Do-nothings in the Justice Department will never start this on their own because too many secrets will come out.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">An honest and competent Judiciary Committee probe of these matters would blow the lid off massive corruption in Alabama and Washington. That corruption is causing major abuses in defense contracting, election rigging, high-level bribery, and even worse crimes that are destroying our country’s basic freedoms.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As noted, one of these scandals currently dominating Alabama’s 2010 gubernatorial race involves the gambling casinos and dog track operators who have shaped our state’s politics for many years.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They are now in open warfare against each other to control the future of government policy in Alabama, most immediately in a huge bingo-related development project near Dothan.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The leading Republican candidate for governor,&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Bob Johnson" data-termid="24726" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/bob-johnson/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Bob Johnson</a>, is raising hell about millions of dollars in&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Jack Abramoff" data-termid="8186" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/jack-abramoff/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Jack Abramoff</a>-related Indian casino graft that had been channeled to the incumbent Republican Gov.&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Bob Riley" data-termid="13538" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/bob-riley/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Bob Riley</a>. For years, Riley cited his abhorrence for gambling to oppose Siegelman’s lottery proposals to fund education and more currently the bingo development. So it’s remarkable to see so much new documentation of Riley’s hypocrisy, especially coming from a fellow Republican like Johnson.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Meanwhile, our presumed Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Artur Davis, a congressman and African-American pal of Obama dating from their Harvard days, is conniving with Rove’s business allies.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Davis hopes to use his connections with the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Business Council of Alabama (BCA) to slip into office amidst the Republican confusion, without taking principled stands on the mind-boggling scandals in Alabama that have caused so much harm locally and nationally. Under&nbsp;President&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Bill Canary" data-termid="12768" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/bill-canary/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Bill Canary</a>, BCA is well-connected to his friend Rove and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue, who share common roots in the American Trucking Association, Republican politics and Alabama skullduggery going back many years.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In my opinion, the worst scandal arising from Alabama -- and certainly the most dramatic -- is the 2008 murder of federal witness&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Mike Connell" data-termid="20721" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/mike-connell/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Mike Connell</a>&nbsp;via sabotage on his airplane. I’ve been helping<b> Ohio’s Common Cause investigate the crash as part of its probe of election software fraud in Ohio that helped provide the 2004 margin for&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="George W. Bush" data-termid="7514" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/george-w-bush/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">George W. Bush</a>’s victory.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As his family feared in early 2008 when he turned against his co-conspirators, someone not currently known damaged Connell’s plane and caused it to crash just before his scheduled testimony as a cooperating federal witness revealing his work assisting Rove’s election-rigging operation.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Years ago, Rove had set up election software study centers in Alabama and Tennessee to develop expertise in the kind of voting machine fraud that cost Siegelman his 2002 re-election.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As well known by now, Riley narrowly beat Siegelman after officials in rural Baldwin County announced on Election Night that they had reversed 3,000 votes for Siegelman and put them into the Riley column after polls closed with Siegelman initially declared the statewide victor.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Let me disclose that I’m currently in hiding from Florida’s state authorities in fear for my own life, especially after police fatally beat my mother outside her home in what I believe to have been retribution for my investigative work.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Later, a Florida county court sentenced me to six months in jail on a disturbing the peace charge for my 2006 attempt to obtain county courthouse records under Florida’s Sunshine law about my mother’s death and the unrelated death of a 14-year-old boy after he was severely beaten in a state juvenile home.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During my first night in jail on the disorderly conduct charge, Florida police withheld the life-saving heart medicines that I require, especially now that I’m trying to recover also from very serious cancers.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So just call me a “fugitive for justice” now that I’m free on bond and living in what we’ll call an undisclosed location. For those reasons, my appearance is now somewhat different from the attached photo taken I’ve used for years.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But I’m willing to risk everything to come to Washington to help an honest oversight inquiry of these scandals by the House Judiciary Committee if anyone there has the nerve to do what’s right.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That’s because corruption I’ve seen connected with Judge Fuller and his confederates is literally destroying our country.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For years, I’ve been writing a book about it called Inside the Dixie Mafia. But I cannot delay my findings any longer at this key juncture. Sadly, the&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="post_tag" title="Obama administration" data-termid="1004" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/tag/obama-administration/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Obama administration</a>&nbsp;is showing that it wants to continue the Justice Department’s Siegelman cover-up for whatever devious purposes the Obama group itself might have.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thus, the cover-up has by now morphed from a Bush scandal to one at Obama’s Justice Department (DOJ). Among recent developments have been the Justice Department’s:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Firing Justice Department whistleblower Tamarah Grimes, a paralegal on the Siegelman case who objected to its paramilitary-style, win-at all-costs implementation wasting taxpayer dollars.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Keeping the lid on the Siegelman case by seeking twenty additional years in prison for Siegelman during his resentencing by Fuller, who originally had the defendant put in solitary confinement and barred from contact with family and the news media.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Retaining the corrupt U.S. Attorney Leura Canary, whose middle district office prosecuted Siegelman. Her husband, William Canary, is Rove’s close friend and head of the Business Council of Alabama and former Republican National Committee chief of staff.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Advocating George Beck as Leura Canary’s successor as U.S. attorney.</b> Beck disgracefully permitted Canary’s office to blackmail his client Nick Bailey via more than 70 paramilitary-style interrogations at an Alabama Air Force base. Fearful of government exposure of his sex life, pressure on his partners and a threatened 10-year prison sentence, Bailey gave misleading and, in essence, since recanted testimony that convicted Siegelman on corruption charges.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As the final straw, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Obama’s new Solicitor General&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Elena Kagan" data-termid="26300" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/elena-kagan/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Elena Kagan</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;is arguing that the Supreme Court should not review the Siegelman prosecution, even though it’s by now an international human rights disgrace.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Some of Obama’s actions are doubtless to curry favor with Alabama’s powerful Senators&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Richard Shelby" data-termid="12551" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/richard-shelby/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Richard Shelby</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Jeff Sessions" data-termid="12766" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/jeff-sessions/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Jeff Sessions</a>, who have no interest in seeing their friend Fuller and his secrets exposed.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It’s likely also that Obama’s own friend, Kagan, thinks her status as a hot-shot legal superstar will one day propel her to a U.S. Supreme Court nomination. Kagan, who formerly taught at the same tight-knit University of Chicago Law School faculty with Obama, went on to become dean at her alma mater Harvard Law School. Might Senate approval for a Supreme Court nomination be easier if she curries favor with Sessions, the Judiciary Committee’s Republican ranking member?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If she thinks so, she’s yet another Harvard-educated fool, at best. In the tradition of Bob Hope’s character in the movie Son of Paleface, she’s as clueless as the senators who approved Fuller’s nomination without a single question about the military contractor Doss Aviation that he’d been running for the previous&nbsp;thirteen years.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Sessions</b> operates in a world of power politics and almost unimaginable hypocrisy. For him and his crowd, anyone who extends a cowardly gesture of friendship, such as Kagan’s stance on Siegelman, is regarded simply as weak.</p><p><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4632912838938953" data-ad-slot="8354443499" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: block; text-align: center; height: 0px;"><ins id="aswift_1_expand" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-table; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 1049px; background-color: transparent;"><ins id="aswift_1_anchor" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; border: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 1049px; background-color: transparent; overflow: hidden; opacity: 0;" /></ins></ins></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">More important, Kagan, Holder and Obama for all their fancy rhetoric and law degrees don’t seem to understand the passion for justice that some of us in Alabama feel about the Siegelman case -- and how our numbers are now augmented nationwide by Internet communications.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The corporate-owned newspapers and broadcasters look for guidance from commentators like Rove on such complex topics. Rove is one of their own as a columnist for the Washington Post-owned Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal. Among his public opinion tools is broadcasting his opinions on Fox News TV, and a new book with mass media interviews this spring.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But the Internet’s capabilities are a game changer, as Obama’s campaign knew, but as his administration now seems to forget.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For these reasons, the public must pressure the House to ramp up an investigation of Fuller and his fellow criminals, such Rove, even though a number of the House’s own members have much to hide from transgressions that rogue authorities have captured via warrantless electronic surveillance, easily enabled by modern technology.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fortunately, whistleblowers and investigative reporters have documented so much evidence against Fuller that it would take only one or two honest congressional members to solve the problem.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">With the public desperate for a hero, here’s a summary of what any courageous congressional member would find if he or she were willing to buck the cover-up system in the way that Florida freshman Representative&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Alan Grayson" data-termid="22025" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/alan-grayson/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Alan Grayson</a>&nbsp;recently did to decry the financial frauds afflicting our country:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fuller’s formal title is Chief U.S. Judge for Alabama’s Middle District, which is based in the capital city of Montgomery. But as the record shows, his real title should be “kangaroo court judge” as only that Wild West term for justice conveys the Fuller style: Shoot-from-the-hip with his “I-am-the law” arrogance.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How do I know? I’m an Alabama-raised investigative reporter reared in Enterprise, which is located near the Gulf and became Alabama’s center for the Dixie Mafia of organized crime. Mobsters moved to my hometown after Phenix City to the east forced them out following a particularly notorious assassination in 1954.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">My jobs have included work as an investigative reporter, private investigator and undercover federal drug investigator. In the course of such work or the social conversations growing out of it, I’ve met former CIA Director and future President George H.W. Bush, retired Cuban Mafia leader Santo Trafficante and Iran-Contra leader&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Oliver North" data-termid="7492" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/oliver-north/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Oliver North</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One of my first jobs was as a photographer for Cliff Wentworth, an attorney and friend of my father’s who would go on to become a notorious cocaine smuggler working directly with Colombia’s most notorious kingpins,&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Pablo Escobar" data-termid="14864" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/pablo-escobar/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Pablo Escobar</a>&nbsp;and Carlos Lehder, to distribute a billion dollars of cocaine throughout the Southeast.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wentworth was later convicted and given a slap on the wrist: Six years, suspended after six months served in a country-club type minimum security facility. That illustrates the kind of federal judges we see in my neck of the woods who coddle their friends in such matters without any real scrutiny from Congress, the Justice Department or the media.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>In March 2007, I met several of Siegelman’s prosecutors on their way to a victory party at my then-neighbor Rove’s home at Rosemary Beach, just south of Alabama in the Florida Panhandle.</b> Curiously, Rove testified before House Judiciary Committee staff last summer that he had scant interest in the Siegelman case and no one had the gumption to challenge him with specifics on that or a hundred other points where an honest and reasonably competent first-year law student could have nailed Rove.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Enterprise is also the hometown of Fuller, who was born in 1958, a few years after me. My father was the Enterprise police chief who welcomed so many outlaw refugees from Phenix City to mingle with our leading citizens and gung-ho military men populating the fast-growing bases in our region. Mark’s father was a state district attorney for the Twelfth Circuit Court based in Enterprise.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a data-taxonomy="person" title="Mark Fuller" data-termid="14105" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/mark-fuller/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Mark Fuller</a>&nbsp;is dirty. I personally know he is dirty. Moreover, I know the whole damn bunch associated with him.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The gist is that both our fathers used their respectable fronts to hide involvement in massive drug smuggling from Columbia by working with outlaws from the Dixie Mafia who had direct ties to major city Mafiosi as well as to the very top smugglers in Colombia.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The racket, which was nicknamed The Enterprise, enjoyed semi-protected status, especially during the Iran-Contra era, which was when Lt. Col.&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Oliver North" data-termid="7492" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/oliver-north/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Oliver North</a>&nbsp;and his colleagues used to visit with my father, with me and with others in town.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Control of Doss Aviation, one of the early companies involved in the smuggling, was passed along from my father and his group to Mark’s father and his cronies, and then ultimately in 1989 to Mark, who that year became Doss Aviation chairman and chief executive officer.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The company won dozens of CIA and Air Force contracts with the help of the region’s longtime Republican representative, Terry Everett, a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee. I used to work for Everett on the local newspapers and broadcasting properties that he owned.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fast forward: As a&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="George W. Bush" data-termid="7514" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/george-w-bush/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">George W. Bush</a>-nominated federal judge appointed in 2002, Fuller retains a controlling interest in Doss Aviation, ensuring that as a judge he will have a fabulous amount of non-judicial income.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The proceeds include some $300 million in Bush administration awards to Doss Aviation since 2006, the year the Siegelman trial began. All of this has been amply documented in on-the-record materials by courageous whistleblowing legal figures Paul Weeks,&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Jill Simpson" data-termid="12770" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/jill-simpson/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Jill Simpson</a>&nbsp;and Tamarah Grimes</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and several very thorough investigative reporters whose exposés have fallen on deaf ears, exposing the degree of corruption at the Justice Department and the indifference, if not complicity, of elected representatives to these big-dollar scandals.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fuller is also part-owner of the CIA front company&nbsp;<a href="http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Oceaneering-International-Inc-Company-History.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Oceaneering International, Inc</a>. As the former Navy Intelligence analyst Wayne Madsen has reported, Oceaneering’s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080522_1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">roots</a>&nbsp;are in the Bush family business Zapata Offshore Oil Co. that George H.W. Bush led before he entered politics and became CIA director from 1976 to 1977.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Justice Department likes to&nbsp;argue in court that Fuller’s massive income from his side businesses, such as Doss Aviation, doesn’t violate the law of judicial recusal because not a single reasonable American might think this kind of money from government contracting would affect his judgment in a political prosecution like Siegelman’s.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Count me as part of the chorus of helpless ordinary observers who say that Fuller should have recused himself, or been forced to recuse himself. The leading Supreme Court case demands he do so under his own motion, and the country’s citizens should be outraged that his fellow federal judges don’t understand that their own integrity is at risk if they tolerate this kind of corruption.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In this instance, Fuller has held a shareholder stake of up to 44 percent of the privately held Doss Aviation firm at the same time that he’s been railroading his longtime enemy Siegelman into prison, and indeed solitary confinement, on charges trumped up by the White House’s operatives in Alabama and Washington.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">His stockholder share of Doss Aviation apparently has been reduced to 30 percent, according to Huffington Post articles here (“<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-kreig/alabama-decisions-illustr_b_213732.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Alabama Decisions Illustrate Abuse of Judicial Power</a>“) and here (“<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-kreig/siegelman-deserves-new-tr_b_201455.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Siegelman Deserves New Trial Because of Judge’s ‘Grudge,’ Evidence Shows</a>“).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But 30 percent still leaves Fuller as controlling shareholder of a company with just six other retainers, according to judicial reporting forms as of last year.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder; color: rgb(48, 49, 51);">Specifics on how Siegelman&nbsp;</span>was fr<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder; color: rgb(48, 49, 51);">amed</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder; color: rgb(48, 49, 51);">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As background, the main federal charges against Siegelman stem from his reappointment of businessman&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="person" title="Richard Scrushy" data-termid="23584" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/person/richard-scrushy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Richard Scrushy</a>&nbsp;to a state board in 1999 after Scrushy contributed to a state non-profit advocating for more spending for education via creation of a state lottery. Ninety-one former state attorneys general have so far argued to the Supreme Court that Siegelman’s actions were not a crime.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But the&nbsp;<a data-taxonomy="post_tag" title="Obama administration" data-termid="1004" class="termlink" href="http://www.constantinereport.com/tag/obama-administration/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Obama administration</a>&nbsp;has not only urged the Supreme Court to reject a hearing, but asked Fuller to sentence Siegelman to an additional&nbsp;twenty years in prison. This continuing travesty of justice is fully documented by on-the-record investigative reporting that sadly is largely ignored by the mainstream, corporate-owned media.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I’ll describe in my next report reasons why the Justice Department wants to keep a lid on the case, and why the corporate-owned media is happy to comply.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: roboto; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; line-height: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Investigative reporter John Burt Caylor is editor and publisher of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.insider-magazine.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; outline: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(77, 150, 212); touch-action: manipulation; transition: color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), background-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86), border-color 200ms cubic-bezier(0.785, 0.135, 0.15, 0.86);">Insider Magazine</a>.&nbsp;Previously, he worked as a television and newspaper reporter, a contract investigator for federal agencies, a licensed private investigator and a network communications consultant. He is a native of Enterprise, Alabama, where his father was police chief and a member of the Dixie Mafia.</p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">gov of goat hill</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nh7QqlkTCmYC&dq=mark+fuller+doss+aviation+contract&source=gbs_navlinks_s">https://books.google.com/books?id=nh7QqlkTCmYC&dq=mark+fuller+doss+aviation+contract&source=gbs_navlinks_s</a></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">hmmn</font></p><div class="cms_table" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: hidden; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><table width="798" class="cms_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><tbody><tr valign="top" class="cms_table_tr"><td class="cms_table_td" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em; border: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>ugust 3-5, 2012 -- 10 BELLS -- Federal judge's firm trained lead 9/11 hijacker

</b>U.S. Judge for the the Middle District of Alabama Mark Fuller, scheduled to re-sentence former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman on August 3 in Montgomery, was the previous owner of a firm that trained accused 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta. The information on Fuller's links to the 9/11 attack were uncovered by a former Republican Party campaign aid in Alabama who spoke to WMR on background.

<a href="http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20070724_4" target="blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line: none;">WMR previously reported on Fuller's financial dealings with Doss Aviation</a>, which, among other government business, had the contract to re-fuel Air Force One. Havong had trained Atta, as well as Saudi, Iranian, and other Egyptian pilots to fly aircraft, the Colorado Springs, Colorado-based Doss Aviation was in a position to help carry out threats against Air Force One that were received by the presidential airplane's pilot on 9/11, specifically "Angel is next." Angel was the classified code word used at the time to denote Air Force One.

Ironically, as we reported earlier: "It is also noteworthy that the Doss Aviation active contract web page has a photo of the World Trade Center shaded in the colors of the U.S. flag. Fuller's firm has seen a growth in contracts and profits since the 9/11 attacks and U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan."

On July 25, 2007, WMR reported: "Information culled from Internet web archives of previous Doss Aviation web pages indicate that the firm was involved in training Saudi and Iranian pilots. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Both&nbsp;<i>Newsweek</i>&nbsp;and Knight Ridder reported that three to five of the 9/11 hijackers had attended military training courses in the United States. They included Mohamed Atta who attended the International Officers' School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama." WMR can now report that one of the pilots Doss trained was Atta. T</span>he Egyptian-born pilot and accused Al Qaeda terrorist cell leader was often seen at the officer's club at Maxwell Air Force Base, where he was known as "Lieutenant Colonel" or merely "Colonel" Mohammed Atta of the Egyptian Air Force.

In 2002, Air Force Lt. Col Steve Butler, vice chancellor for student affairs at the<b>&nbsp;Defense Language Institute (DLI) in Monterey, California,</b> stated in a letter to the&nbsp;<i>Monterey County Herald</i>&nbsp;that "<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bush knew about the impending attacks."</span> Butler was disciplined by the Air Force for his remarks. However, the Air Force appears to have had a good reason to silence anyone who was in a position to shine the light on Air Force culpability in 9/11 and Siegelman, a former Alabama Attorney General and later governor during the 9/11 attack was worrisome to the 9/11 plotters.

Saeed <b>Alghamdi, one of the Saudi 9/11 hijackers, had reportedly attended classes at DLI.</b>

On July 27, 2007,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> WMR reported, "<b>Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Feaga,</b> the lead prosecutor in the [Siegelman/(former HealthSouth CEO Richard) Scrushy] case, is a colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and is an assistant to Staff Judge Advocate Brig. Gen. Richard C. Harding at Langley Air Force Base, the principal legal adviser to the Air Combat Staff. Feaga and his boss Harding have jurisdiction over all legal matters at Langley, including contracts awarded to Doss Aviation.</span>

Federal Judge Mark Fuller, who tried and convicted Siegelman and Scrushy, is a current principal of Doss Aviation, a major conflict of interest for a sitting federal judge."

The Justice Department case against Siegelman and Scrushy was not staged out of the Federal building in Montgomery but in a 40,000 square foot building at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base outside of Montgomery. The use of a military base to carry out a civil prosecution, especially against a former governor, was highly unusual and virtually unprecedented and represented an ominous incursion of the military into civilian law enforcement and the justice system.

However, when Fuller's links to Doss and that firm's training of at least one of the accused 9/11 hijackers is considered, the use of Maxwell, Atta's one-time duty station, was not unusual and represented an attempt by Fuller and top Justice Department officials to cover-up the Pentagon's role in 9/11.

Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan, while Solicitor General under Attorney General Eric Holder, did nothing to vacate or alleviate the politically-motivated charges against Siegelman. In Holder and President Obama kept in place as U.S. Attorney in Montgomery Leura Canary, the wife of Alabama GOP grand mufti Bill Canary, a friend of Karl Rove.

It was only<b> after Fuller's wife, Lisa Boyd Fuller, became aware of an on-going affair between Fuller and one of his deputy clerks, Kelli Gregg, that the judge's links to Doss became a problem</b>. Some five months before Mrs. Fuller filed divorce papers against Fuller on May 10, 2012,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Doss Aviation was sold to J.F. Lehman & Company, which is owned by former Navy Secretary and 9/11 Commission member John Lehman. The law firm that worked out the details of the sale was Jones Day, a firm with close ties to the Republican Party and the Central Intelligence Agency. </span>By divesting himself of Doss's assets, Fuller could escape his wife's claims on Doss profits as shared marriage assets. The sale of Doss to Lehman would also protect the U.S. government's foreknowledge of the events of 9/11.

Siegelman and his lawyers will argue for leniency before Fuller in Montgomery. It is a mark of our corrupt judicial system that it is Siegelman who is on trial and Fuller who is the presiding judge. In a more perfect world and in a more perfect union, it would be Judge Siegelman deciding the fate of Mr. Fuller, a corrupt former Republican Party operative and aider and abettor of terrorism.



</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p><a href="http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20120803" target="blank" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20120803</font></a></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.waynemadsenreport.com/categories/20070329">https://www.waynemadsenreport.com/categories/20070329</a></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">atticus:</font></p><div class="page-inner-wrapper" data-reactid=".4.2.0.0.$820=19411764705882.0.$row-0.0.0" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div id="pg-1pf1" class="pf pg-1w0 pg-1h0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="pc pg-1pc1 pg-1w0 pg-1h0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h5 class="t pg-1m0 pg-1x3 pg-1h3 pg-1y2c pg-1ff3 pg-1fs0 pg-1fc0 pg-1sc0 pg-1ls0 pg-1ws0" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The only evidence they had against Siegelman was the testimony of one of his former aides, Nick Bailey. However, unbeknownst to everyone at the time, including Siegelman, Bailey was crooked. Investigators found that he took tens of thousands in kickbacks and charged him with bribery. During the investigation, prosecutors under Leura Canary mercilessly coerced Bailey to testify against his former boss, Gov. Siegelman. During the 100+ meetings over the course of a few years, Prosecutors forced Bailey to practice a script they provided him that falsely stated that Siegelman took a bribe. To make sure he complied, prosecutors threatened Bailey with jail time if he didn’t stick to their prescribed narrative.</font></h5></div></div></div><div id="pf2" class="page-outer-wrapper" data-reactid=".4.2.0.0.$820=19411764705882.0.$row-1.0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="page-inner-wrapper" data-reactid=".4.2.0.0.$820=19411764705882.0.$row-1.0.0" style="font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div id="pg-2pf2" class="pf pg-2w0 pg-2h0" style="font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="pc pg-2pc2 pg-2w0 pg-2h0" style="font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><blockquote https="https" atticusvthearchitect.com="atticusvthearchitect.com" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" solitudo-child="solitudo-child" design="design" img="img" blockquote.png="blockquote.png" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-size="background-size" initial="initial" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" border-radius="border-radius" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 15px 15px 1px 70px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; position: relative; background-image: url("><h4 class="t pg-2m0 pg-2x1 pg-2h3 pg-2y9 pg-2ff2 pg-2fs0 pg-2fc0 pg-2sc0 pg-2ls0 pg-2ws0" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“<span class="pg-2ff3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">America’s Political Prisoner #1.”</span></font></h4><h4 class="t pg-2m0 pg-2x2 pg-2h2 pg-2ya pg-2ff1 pg-2fs0 pg-2fc0 pg-2sc0 pg-2ls0 pg-2ws0" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">–&nbsp;<span class="pg-2ff4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">American Trial Lawyers Magazine</span></font></h4></blockquote><h5 class="t pg-2m0 pg-2x0 pg-2h2 pg-2yb pg-2ff1 pg-2fs0 pg-2fc0 pg-2sc0 pg-2ls0 pg-2ws0" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">To make that false testimony admissible and trumped up charges stick in court, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">one of Siegelman’s arch political enemies, Judge Mark Fuller, was suspiciously chosen to preside over the trial.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite numerous ethical violations, and multiple conflicts of interest, Fuller rejected demands for his recusal. 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Judge U.W. Clemon<span class="pg-2ff1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">, Federal Judge (Ret.)</span></span></font></h4></blockquote></div></div></div></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mark Everett Fuller</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;(born 1958 in&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise,Alabama" title="Enterprise, Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Enterprise, Alabama</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) is a&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_judge" title="United States federal judge" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">United States District Judge</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;of the</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Middle_District_of_Alabama" title="United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Fuller is </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"most recognizable" for presiding over the controversial case of former Alabama Governor&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Siegelman" title="Don Siegelman" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Don Siegelman</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Siegelman</i></span></font></a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#Criticism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Criticism</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#Personal_life_and_legal_issues" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">3</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">Personal life and legal issues</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">4</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber">5</span>&nbsp;<span class="toctext">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Education_and_career">Education and career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Fuller&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Education and career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He received a&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science" title="Bachelor of Science" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bachelor of Science</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;degree from the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Alabama" title="University of Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">University of Alabama</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;in 1982 and a&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Juris Doctorate</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;from the&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Alabama_School_of_Law" title="University of Alabama School of Law" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">University of Alabama School of Law</a>&nbsp;in 1985</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-officialbio_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-officialbio-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;He was an attorney in private practice from 1985–1996, when he became Chief Assistant District Attorney for the 12th Judicial Circuit of Alabama.</span><sup id="cite_ref-officialbio_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-officialbio-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 1996, he was elected District Attorney of the 12th Circuit where he served until his appointment as a federal judge.<sup id="cite_ref-officialbio_2-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-officialbio-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup>&nbsp;As the District Attorney, Fuller was criticized for giving "extraordinary wages" to staff, including increasing office investigator Bruce DeVane's "salary to almost $6,000 every two weeks" until it nearly doubled by the end of 2000, and Fuller later testified during the proceedings about the retirements he approved in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On August 1, 2002, he was nominated by</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">George W. Bush</a>&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and confirmed by the US Senate on November 14, 2002. He received his commission on November 26, 2002.</span><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="U.S.v.Siegelman"><i>U.S. v. Siegelman</i></span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Fuller&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: U.S. v. Siegelman" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2004, former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman was charged with Medicaid fraud, but the day after his trial began, prosecutors abruptly dropped all charges and judge&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.W.Clemon" title="U. W. Clemon" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U. W. Clemon</a>&nbsp;threw out much of the prosecution's evidence and stated that no new charges could be refiled based on the disallowed evidence.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2006, Siegelman was charged again and Judge Fuller presided over the criminal trial for bribery and obstruction of justice. After a highly publicized trial that spanned several months, a jury convicted former Governor Siegelman and co-Defendant&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Scrushy" title="Richard Scrushy" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Richard Scrushy</a>, founder and former CEO of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthSouth" title="HealthSouth" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">HealthSouth</a>, of federal funds bribery relating to Governor Siegelman's failed Alabama education lottery campaign. Prosecutors alleged that Scrushy, who supported Siegelman's 1998 gubernatorial opponent, Governor Fob James, reconciled their differences. Siegelman initially resisted, but later agreed to meet with Scrushy. According to trial testimony from a Siegelman aide, Nick Bailey, after the meeting ended Siegelman emerged with a $250,000 check and told Bailey that Scrushy "was halfway there." When Bailey asked Siegelman what Scrushy wanted for the contribution, Siegelman allegedly said, "the C-O-N Board." Bailey's recollection of the events, in particular his thought that Siegelman had emerged from the meeting with a check, turned out to be incorrect.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Prosecution_of_Siegelman_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-The_Prosecution_of_Siegelman-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The jury was deadlocked twice.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;Fuller then told the jury they had the potential for “a lifetime job for you as a juror,” noting that he had “a lifetime appointment” and was “a very patient person," and the jury convicted the following day.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup>&nbsp;At his first sentencing hearing, Fuller sentenced him to 88 months. Siegelman defenders argue that the sentence is unprecedented and the punishment excessive because, for example</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, former Alabama Governor&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.Guy_Hunt" title="H. Guy Hunt" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">H. Guy Hunt</a>, a Republican, was found guilty of personally pocketing $200,000 and did not receive jail time.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[9]</a></sup></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Siegelman appealed and on March 6, 2009, the Eleventh Circuit upheld key bribery, conspiracy and obstruction counts against Siegelman and refused his request for a new trial, finding no evidence that the conviction was unjust, but struck two of the seven charges on which Siegelman was convicted and ordered a new sentencing hearing.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></sup>&nbsp;It affirmed Judge Hinkle's decision (Judge Fuller asked that a separate judge be assigned to handle the motion) that Judge Fuller need not recuse himself from the case. The Eleventh Circuit noted that recusal motions must be made before trial, but the Defense did not learn of Fuller's conflicts (<i>see</i>&nbsp;"Criticism" below) until after the trial had begun. It also upheld the jury instructions that Fuller gave to the jury prior to their deliberations.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In December 2009, Fuller then reduced Governor Siegelman's sentence by 10 months during re-sentencing,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a></sup>&nbsp;leaving him with 69 months.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Criticism">Criticism</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Fuller&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Criticism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Fuller has been accused of acting unethically, in the case and otherwise.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></sup>&nbsp;He refused to allow the Defense to present well-documented evidence of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_prosecution" title="Selective prosecution" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">selective prosecution</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></sup>&nbsp;and critics suggest he facilitated the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutorial_misconduct" title="Prosecutorial misconduct" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">prosecutorial misconduct</a>&nbsp;that occurred in the case.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a></sup>&nbsp;On October 23, 2007, in a statement to the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Judiciary_Committee" title="House Judiciary Committee" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">House Judiciary Committee</a>, the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Justice" title="Alliance for Justice" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Alliance for Justice</a>&nbsp;called for an investigation into Fuller's handling of the case.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Law_School" title="Columbia Law School" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Columbia Law School</a>&nbsp;professor and contributor to&nbsp;<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper%27s_Magazine" title="Harper's Magazine" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Harper's Magazine</a></i>&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Horton(attorney)" title="Scott Horton (attorney)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Scott Horton</a>&nbsp;has written numerous articles on&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fuller's multiple&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflicts_of_interest" title="Conflicts of interest" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">conflicts of interest</a>&nbsp;in presiding over the Siegelman case</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[21]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[22]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Despite his conflicts, Fuller refused to&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuse" title="Recuse" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">recuse</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;himself from the case. One such conflict was the fact that Siegelman, when Governor, prompted an investigation into Fuller's "questionable [financial] practices" as&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_Attorney" title="District Attorney" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">District Attorney</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[23]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Fuller claimed that those allegations were "politically motivated",</span><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[24]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;though audits proved that Fuller had in fact undertaken&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">unethical financial practices when he was DA</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[25]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[26]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Siegelman supporters believe that Fuller held a grudge against Siegelman and would not recuse because he wanted Siegelman convicted, a feat accomplished with Fuller's expansive&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_instructions" title="Jury instructions" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">jury instructions</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and controversial&nbsp;</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite_charge" title="Dynamite charge" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">dynamite charge</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;(see above).</span><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[27]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[28]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">At Siegelman's sentencing, Fuller had Siegelman taken from the courtroom in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handcuffs" title="Handcuffs" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">handcuffs</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legcuffs" title="Legcuffs" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">leg manacles</a>&nbsp;and sent immediately to prison.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[29]</a></sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes" title="60 Minutes" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">60 Minutes</a>&nbsp;aired a report about the controversy during which&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Woods" title="Grant Woods" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Grant Woods</a>, former Republican Attorney General of Arizona, commented, “That tells you that this was personal. You would not do that to a former governor.”<sup id="cite_ref-The_Prosecution_of_Siegelman_6-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-The_Prosecution_of_Siegelman-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup>&nbsp;Siegelman, his family, and many others continue to maintain Siegelman's innocence.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[30]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[31]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life_and_legal_issues">Personal life and legal issues</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Fuller&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life and legal issues" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Fuller has been married twice. In 2012, he divorced Lisa Boyd Fuller, and the court records were sealed with Mark citing the safety concerns and Lisa objecting, alleging Fuller "was guilty of marital misconduct and is attempting to shield himself from the public scrutiny thereof."<sup id="cite_ref-Cases_reassigned_32-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-Cases_reassigned-32" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[32]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[33]</a></sup>That same year he married Kelli Fuller, a former court bailiff with whom his ex-wife alleged Fuller had an affair.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[34]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On August 9, 2014, Fuller was arrested and charged with&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misdemeanor" title="Misdemeanor" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">misdemeanor</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_(crime)" title="Battery (crime)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">battery</a>, punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $1,000, for an incident of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence" title="Domestic violence" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">domestic violence</a>&nbsp;involving his wife, Kelli, following her allegation that he was having an affair with a law-clerk employee.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_battery_35-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-CNN_battery-35" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[35]</a></sup>Fuller was jailed overnight following his arrest.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_battery_35-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-CNN_battery-35" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[35]</a></sup>&nbsp;The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reassigned cases in Fuller's court to other district court judges, and will not assign any new cases to Fuller until further order of the circuit court.<sup id="cite_ref-Cases_reassigned_32-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-Cases_reassigned-32" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[32]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[36]</a></sup>&nbsp;In September, he accepted a plea deal that would "expunge" the charges if he undergoes a drug and alcohol evaluation, completes a counseling program and attend a domestic violence program for 24 weeks.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[37]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By mid-September several state and national politicians called on Fuller to resign. Rep.&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Sewell" title="Terri Sewell" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Terri Sewell</a>&nbsp;(D-AL) publicly stated Fuller should resign, and other members of Alabama's Congressional delegation followed.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[38]</a></sup>&nbsp;On September 17, 2014, Republican Senators&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shelby" title="Richard Shelby" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Richard Shelby</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sessions" title="Jeff Sessions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jeff Sessions</a>&nbsp;of Alabama, and Democratic Senator&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_McCaskill" title="Claire McCaskill" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Claire McCaskill</a>&nbsp;of Missouri, called on Fuller to resign from the District Court.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[39]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On October 17, 2014,&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Sewell" title="Terri Sewell" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sewell</a>&nbsp;"threatened to begin impeachment proceedings" against Judge Fuller if he does not resign.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuller#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[40]</a></sup></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><div style="line-height: 18.8500003814697px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.8500003814697px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">AUGUST 3, 2012, 7:01 PM &nbsp; &nbsp;LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 2012, 7:01 PM</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BY BOB JOHNSON</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">WIRE SERVICE</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PAGES: 1 2 > DISPLAY ON ONE PAGE</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Following years of appeals and a vocal campaign by supporters, ex-Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman is heading back to prison after being sentenced Friday to more than six years for bribery and other convictions.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Siegelman and former HealthSouth chief Richard Scrushy were convicted in 2006. They arranged $500,000 in contributions to Siegelman's campaign for a state lottery to fund education programs in exchange for the governor appointing Scrushy to an important hospital regulatory board.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Before his sentencing that his lawyer called "cruel and unusual," the 66-year-old Siegelman told a judge that he "deeply regrets" the things he has done.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"I apologize to people for the embarrassment my actions have caused," Siegelman said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller&nbsp;</b>said the case has been hard on everyone, including Siegelman's family. He acknowledged the good things Siegelman had accomplished in his years of public service that spanned nearly three decades. But he said they did not justify the crimes for which he was convicted. He allowed Siegelman to remain free and turn himself in by Sept. 11.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"It's been a long seven years," Fuller said. "Good luck to you."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Siegelman made his apology in front of the court after a line of character witnesses praised many of the former governor's good deeds, including helping friends through hard times and teaching children karate. The children called him "Sensei Don."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But prosecutor Louis Franklin asked Fuller to consider the laws Sielgleman was convicted of breaking as well.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We ask that you hold him responsible for the conduct he engaged in that you heard about at trial," Franklin said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Afterward, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer said the sentencing six years after the trial ended shows the government's resolve to bring the case to a conclusion.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Franklin said the case has "energized my faith in our legal system and renewed my commitment to prosecute politicians who commit bribery, honest services mail fraud, conspiracy and obstruction of justice."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Siegelman told Fuller he hoped the judge would one day believe that Siegelman did not know he was getting close to crossing the line between a campaign contribution and a crime. "I had no criminal intent. I was raising money for the lottery of Alabama," he said.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Siegelman argued for leniency by saying, "I'm a felon who has been in prison, a felon who lost his reputation, lost my law license."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">His voice broke as he talked about what he had lost.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"I speak today to plead for your mercy."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Siegelman, who served one term as governor from 1999 to 2003, was originally sentenced to more than seven years in prison. Fuller sentenced him to 6 ½ years. He served about nine months before being released pending his appeals. Fuller said those months will be subtracted. He also ordered him to serve two years on probation and pay a $50,000 fine.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"I never expected my career of public service to end in a federal courtroom," Siegelman told reporters gathered outside the courthouse.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Asked if it was the worse day of his life, Siegelman said: "I can't think of one that would be closer to the top."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">His sentence is about equal to that of Scrushy's. He recently finished his nearly five-year prison sentence.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">His attorney, Art Leach, said the 10-month reduction that Siegelman got was similar to the year reduction for Scrushy. He declined comment beyond that because he was not in the courtroom. He said he had not talked to Scrushy, who now lives in a Houston suburb.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Siegelman and his lawyer, Susan James, said they haven't decided whether to appeal the sentence, but James said she took steps in court Friday to lay the groundwork. She said she was disappointed Siegelman's sentence wasn't reduced more....</div></span></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==</font></p>