Hung Jury Breaks for Weekend in Montgomery
June 23rd, 2006The hung jury in the Bush Justice Department’s alleged corruption trial against former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and deposed HealthSouth founder Richard Scrushy broke for the weekend about noon Friday after seven days of deliberations without reaching a unanimous verdict .
Attorneys for both sides met with U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller in private on what is being reported as a security issue in downtown Montgomery. Sources are saying it is unrelated to the trial.
The judge had told the jury it would be OK to return a partial verdict if they could agree on some of the 34 counts against the four defendants.
So the vigil continues Monday. Check back and hit refresh for updates, here and on the news page.
June 27th, 2006 at 12:48 am
We are now back online as of about 5:24 p.m. Monday evening after our high speed Internet service at Charter.Net and our blog cgi bin server were sabotaged Friday night, not long after we led the news with this story, now
in the news today as Bush and Cheney both went on the campaign trail to bash the press for telling the public what a lot of us have already known for some time.
Financial Searches Raises Privacy
Fears
For most Americans, the confidentiality of their bank accounts and other financial holdings is a right to be cherished. The idea that government agents might be secretly scrutinizing the records of individuals arouses
discomfort in people who view their wealth, income and other financial information as nobody’s business but their own. So questions of privacy arose yesterday after revelations that the Bush administration has been tracking clues about terrorists by searching the records of a Belgium-based
banking consortium that handles millions of financial transactions daily across national borders.
An investigation is underway to find out how our service was sabotaged and by whom. Check back and hit refresh for updates.
The blog itself is still not working properly, so check the news page.
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June 28th, 2006 at 8:46 am
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June 28th, 2006 at 9:01 am
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