From the left on the earlier post. This is from self-important “journalist darling” Larisa Alexandrovna.

“My favorite piece of crap floating at the surface of the nearly self-strangulated GOP machine is the blog called Macsmind, who never fails to make me laugh with his absolute inability to never put forth facts. I would actually take these people a bit more seriously if they attempted to even once in a while actually seem like they are not reading a neatly typed-out transcript.

I have one question for these fine, mental-all stars: Did Karl Rove testify under oath the way Ms. Simpson did? Ah, I see… crickets.

But that is not all, the Mobile Register, the Birmingham News, and Eddie Curran’s second installment today make for a nice trifecta of misinformation, propaganda, and attacks on anything and everything in order to keep Karl Rove’s wilting blossom afloat.

Forget even loyalty to party over country. It is worse than that even. These people will sink their own party to prove their loyalty to Karl Rove. Now that is truly un-American.”

Er…love you too. “favorite piece of crap floating at the surface of the nearly self-strangulated GOP machine”?  Somewhere my journalism professor, Lord Pencil as I called him, rolled over in his grave.

Quite frankly, I’ll pass on the return, but I am well familiar with he Siegleman prosecution, and those who prosecuted him.  Good people.  Just the kind the left vilifie. You will remember that I before that Don Siegelman was a dirtbag long before Karl Rove became - according to C-BS - his nemisis. Rove didn’t have to “help get Siegleman”, Siegleman did it all by his crooked self.

Let’s recap from the indictment (click on the graphic for a quick round up).
“Former Alabama Governor Don Eugene Siegelman and three other individuals have been indicted on charges related to a widespread racketeering conspiracy that included bribery and extortion in exchange for official acts, the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama announced today. The 30-count superseding indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama today. The indictment charges Siegelman and former Chief of Staff Paul Michael Hamrick with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute while Siegelman served as governor of Alabama from 1999 to 2003, and honest services mail and wire fraud. Siegelman is also charged with obstruction of justice, and with bribery for allegedly accepting money in exchange for actions taken as governor.

Three other individuals have pleaded guilty to public corruption charges in connection with the scheme - Alabama businessman and consultant Clayton “Lanny” Young, former Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs Acting Director Nick Bailey and architect William Curtis Kirsch. Today’s indictment alleges that Siegelman and Hamrick took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from Young to aid Young’s business interests, including the awarding of contracts to companies controlled by Young.

Siegelman is also charged with extortion for allegedly demanding payments from individuals under the threat of harming their business interests with the State of Alabama. Specifically, the indictment alleges that Siegelman demanded $100,000 and accepted $40,000 from one individual under the threat of harming that person’s business with the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT). Siegelman also allegedly demanded $250,000 from another individual under the same threat. The indictment also alleges that Siegelman, Hamrick and others established a criminal enterprise in which official actions were exchanged for bribes.
Specifically, the indictment alleges that then-HealthSouth Chief Executive Officer Richard M. Scrushy made two disguised payments totaling $500,000 to Siegelman in exchange for Siegelman’s appointment of Scrushy to Alabama’s Certificate of Need Review Board. Scrushy - initially named in a sealed indictment filed on May 17, 2005 - is charged with bribery and mail fraud.

Gary Mack Roberts, the former Director of ALDOT, is charged in the indictment with honest services mail and wire fraud for his alleged role in influencing ALDOT actions on behalf of Siegelman. The RICO and conspiracy to commit RICO charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. The maximum penalty for the bribery charges is 10 years in prison and a $250,0000 fine. The maximum penalty for honest services mail and wire fraud is 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, while the maximum penalty for obstruction of justice is 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.”

You see in the mind of the left there is always a “conspiracy” whenever a liberal get’s popped for being a crook. Somewhere, somehow there MUST be a Rove or a Cheney or some other “wingnut” behind it. God forbid that the sucker is just a common run of the mill crook, which is exactly who Don Siegelman was, and why he was indicted and convicted for.

Those my dear - are the facts.