On
August 3th our Governor Don Siegelman was resentenced to serve the
balance of a 78 month term. Don's reporting date is September 11th.
At
the sentencing in 2007 Judge Fuller had the Governor hand cuffed and shackled
with chains around his legs and waist and taken from the court room and put
into solitary confinement in the basement of a maximum security prison in
Atlanta at 1:00 AM.
On
August 3rd at resentencing Judge Fuller granted a motion for
Don to self-report and said that he would request that the BOP
place Don at a facility "as near Alabama as he can be designated".
While
Talladega is only 49 miles away and Maxwell Air Force base only 97 miles Judge
Fuller must have thought that Don's enthusiastic supporters like me would be
viewed as way too much of a distraction if Don were in Alabama.
Pensacola,
however, is only 251 miles away, about a 4 and - hour drive for Don's wife,
Lori.
But
oh no, apparently even Pensacola is too near Alabama for the Judge, because
Don just received notice that he is assigned to Oakdale, Louisiana, a
17-18 hour, 900+ mile round trip.
As
you may remember Lori, Don's wife, lost an eye in a horrific automobile
accident with a drunk driver in 1984. She would have difficulty driving the
17-18 hour, 900+ mile round trip to Oakdale and back. It would be very
dangerous and nearly impossible for her to drive it alone.
This
is nothing but punitive. It is outrageous that the Judge is sending Don to
prison at all for something that wasn't a crime. It's never been a crime to
appoint a contributor to something. Where do Ambassadors come from? From people
who raise money for whomever is elected president!
If
it was not for Richard Scrushy being the contributor and for the government
pressuring Nick Bailey who was facing 40 to 100 years in prison to lie there
would not have been a conviction.
The
conviction makes me sick the extreme sentence makes me sick and putting Don
as far from his family and friends AS POSSIBLE... MAKES ME ANGRY.
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