Former Michigan Dem Gov Nominee Geoffrey Fieger Indicted
Geoffrey Fieger, a prominent attorney who was the Democrats' nominee in an unsuccessful bid for governor of Michigan in 1998 against incumbent John Engler, was indicted today for conspiracy to make illegal campaign contributions to John Edwards in 2004.
Prosecutors claim that Fieger attempted to illegally donate over $125,000 to Edwards' campaign, about 60 times more than the legal limit for personal contributions to a primary campaign, by falsely reporting it as a bundle of donations from separate individuals.
According to the U.S. Attorney's office, John Edwards' campaign had no knowledge of or involvement in the alleged conspiracy and cooperated fully with investigators, so the indictment is Fieger's problem alone.
Geoffrey Fieger is also widely known for representing Dr. Jack Kevorkian in court, the physician who promoted assistant suicide and went to prison for having personally killed terminally ill patients.
why would someone risk jail just to donate what amounts to a few extra bucks vs. the millions to a candidate?
was this guy dumb or did he just screw up?
August 24, 2007 2:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
So O'Reily, Limbuagh and Coulter will point at Edwards and say that he is EE-VAL CUZ some jack_hole was an idiot four years ago.
I question the timing of this story. Edwards stumps on the bullshit of corporate/Washington and a corruption story (not directly) involving him breaks three days later . . .
I am going to have to lay in a big supply of tin-foil for hat construction if these coincidences don't stop piling up . . .
August 24, 2007 2:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
i'm sure on hannity's radio show he will mention how corrupt democrats are yada yada yada.
but he wont mention Rick Renzi's retirement.
August 24, 2007 2:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think it's "assisted suicide" and "personally assisted terminally ill patients who committed suicide."
August 24, 2007 4:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
The cases that got him in real legal trouble involved him actually pressing the button for them. Thus, he killed them. They were certainly mercy killings, and we can argue the morality of that all day. But it was what it was.
August 24, 2007 11:23 PM | Reply | Permalink