Dick Cheney prison abuse charge
p2pnet news view | Crime:- US co-president Dick Cheney and former self-described US Top Cop Alberto Gonzales have been indicted for “organized criminal activity” centering on the alleged abuse of inmates in private Texas prisons, says a US Politics Today press release.
Citing a ‘money trail’ of Cheney’s, “ownership in enterprises including the Vanguard Group, which owns an interest in private prisons, a grand jury has indicted Cheney on charges related to alleged abuse of prisoners being detained in Willacy County federal detention centers,” it says.
“The indictment also charges that Alberto Gonzales halted an investigation into the alleged abuse while he was attorney general.”
The indictment, not yet been signed by the presiding judge, “was one of seven released Tuesday in a county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles in recent years,” says the Houston Chronicle.
Willacy County, “has become a prison hub with county, state and federal lockups, says the story, going on that Willacy County district attorney Juan Angel Guerra, ” has gone after the prison-politician nexus before, extracting guilty pleas from three former Willacy and Webb county commissioners after investigating bribery related to federal prison contacts” .
Another indictment accuses state senator Eddie Lucio Jr, ” of profiting from his public office by accepting honoraria from prison management companies”.
(Cheers, Luvie)
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US Politics Today – ‘With Great Sadness’, Texas Grand Jury Indicts Cheney, Gonzales for Organized Criminal Activity, November 19, 2008
Houston Chronicle – Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales indicted in S. TexasNovember 18, 2008
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