FBI gathers records related to Easley (Bushbot US Attorney witch hunt?)

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Source: Raleigh News & Observer

BY J. ANDREW CURLISS - STAFF WRITER
Published: Wed, May. 20, 2009 09:16AM
Modified Wed, May. 20, 2009 09:40AM

Federal authorities have collected travel and other records related to former Gov. Mike Easley as a grand jury meets in Raleigh today ...

But Capt. Everett Clendenin said ... the records included information about private air travel of Easley, a Democrat who left office in January. The records also included documents and information about an internal affairs investigation and personnel records that have not been made public ...

The chancellor and provost at N.C. State University have been ordered to appear before the grand jury on Thursday.

Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2972/story/1535209.html

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You might want to check what leftover Bushbot US attorneys doing in your state

Here in NC, George E. B. Holding is going after former Governor Mike Easley (D), a one-time prosecutor with a squeaky-clean reputation. Easley was a rather conservative governor, who never much enjoyed standard political activities: his real interest seems to have been administrative matters. I don't expect Holding will actually succeed in a case against Easley, but Holding earlier took down Ag Commissioner Meg Scott Phipps (D), who seems to have pleaded guilty under threat of reprisals against her family

Phipps plea a sham, family claims
Prosecutors used threats, sisters say
Joseph Neff and Kristin Collins - Staff Writers
Published: Fri, Dec. 19, 2003 12:30AM
Modified Sun, Oct. 23, 2005 05:09PM

Meg Scott Phipps walked into federal court in November, swore on a Bible to tell the truth and pleaded guilty to five counts of extortion, fraud and conspiracy.

Behind the scenes, her family says the guilty plea was a sham and prosecutors forced Phipps, the former agriculture commissioner, to admit crimes she didn't commit.

In e-mail messages to friends, family and state employees, two of Phipps' sisters say federal prosecutors threatened to prosecute Phipps' husband and father, former Gov. Bob Scott, and to force her to sell the family farm. The e-mail messages, recently obtained by The News & Observer, say the witnesses who testified against Phipps at her October trial were also pressured to lie.

And Phipps, who declined to testify in her own defense, wrote to friends in a holiday letter that she has not been allowed to tell her side of the story ... http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/politicians/phipps/story/247474.html ...

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1. Don't worry. This is the administration of change.