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Ineverlie&I'malwaysri
Joined: 09 Aug 2011
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 Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 10:57 am Post subject: Lynne Stewart II: Paul Bergrin |
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This activist lawyer was targeted for his attempts to expose the blame of those at the highest levels of government. His trial has just begun.
http://www.paulbergrin.org/
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During the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal, Bergrin sought to put George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld on the stand for authorizing the abuses at the prison. And when George Bush wanted to destroy Abu Ghraib, he was the one who was able to prevent him from razing it to the ground, by having the judge rule it a crime scene and demanding that it not be destroyed for the duration of the Abu Ghraib trials (it should also be noted that Iraqi officials were also against tearing it down as well).
During the Operation Iron Triangle case, Bergrin won the right to have Colonel Michael Steele (the colonel upon whom the movie Black Hawk Down is based) take the witness stand. This was unprecedented as no one with a rank as high as Steele's had ever been commanded to take the stand in the history of the US military. However, this case never went to trial, as Paul Bergrin was accused of running a brothel and arrested on felony charges in 2007, days before the trial was to begin (In 2009 all of the felony charges would be dropped and Bergrin would plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge, which did not result in the loss of his license). When this arrest first happened, it even caused his then attorney, John Edwards Tiffany, to question whether or not the charges were some type of vendetta against Bergrin for his aggressive defense style and stepping on too many toes. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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So by his own admission he's a pimp.
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| Bergrin pleaded guilty earlier this month to conspiracy to promote a Manhattan prostitution ring once led by a client. He was fined $50,000 and put on probation for three years. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau secured Bergrin�s indictment on the call-girl charges in 2007. |
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=adpaYCtXwvnQ
One has to wonder at support of unsavory characters. |
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Ineverlie&I'malwaysri
Joined: 09 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:53 am Post subject: |
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^ That's a personal opinion. In some places, prostitution is legal, as it should be. In any event, that pales in comparison to the wrongdoing he was exposing.
Funny how often they use sex charges to discredit activists and people in positions of power or fame: Assange, DSK, Clinton, Gore, MJ, etc. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Ineverlie&I'malwaysri wrote: |
^ That's a personal opinion. In some places, prostitution is legal, as it should be. In any event, that pales in comparison to the wrongdoing he was exposing.
Funny how often they use sex charges to discredit activists and people in positions of power or fame: Assange, DSK, Clinton, Gore, MJ, etc. |
He admitted to the sex charges...which the others haven't.
And he's not being tried for that but for conspiracy to commit murder which I'd say is about equal to the wrong-doing he was exposing. |
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