The Players - Karl Rove

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Judge Noel Hillman

Former Chief of the Office of Public Integrity

Hillman was the lead Justice Department prosecutor in the Jack

Abramoff Capitol Hill lobbying scandal. The investigation into

Jack

Abramoff took a surprising turn when the Justice

Department said the

chief prosecutor Hillman would step down

because he had been

nominated to a federal judgeship by

President Bush. This effectively

ended the Abramoff

Investigation.

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on Hillman

[source: PoliticalFriendster; Harper's 7/13/07]

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U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller

Also President of Doss Aviation, a DOJ contractor

Mark Fuller, who was appointed by the current President Bush

and is a

former member of the Executive Committee of the

Alabama Republican

Party. District Judge Mark E. Fuller

presides over the Siegelman-

Scrushy trial and refused to recuse

himself from the sentencing phase

of the case, in spite of a

serious conflict of interest.

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U.W. Clemons

Birmingham Judge

Clemons is a judge in Birmingham who dismissed the first

proceedings

against Siegelman with prejudice and went out of

his way to suggest

he suspected inappropriate conduct on the

part of prosecutors.

Clemons is the only Democratic appointee

among the judges.

[Harper's 7/13/07]

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Alberto Gonzales

Alberto Gonzales advisor to Bush and Head of the Department of Justice,

Attorney

General of the United States

NYT Editorial

....It was just that kind of craven politics — the desire

to co-opt the power of the government to win elections — that

was the driving force in Mr. Gonzales’s Justice Department.

Dedicated and capable United States attorneys were fired for

insisting on doing their jobs with integrity — for refusing to put

people in jail, or shield them from prosecution, simply to help

Republicans win elections. Lawyers were hired for nonpolitical

jobs based on party enrollment and campaign contributions, and

top members of Mr. Gonzales’s staff attended pre-election

political briefings at the White House led by Karl Rove and his

aides

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Who are the Players?
FEDERAL JUDGES

Noel Hillman

Former Chief of the
Office of Public Integrity

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U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller:
and
President of Doss Aviation
Address used on
2002 Doss Annual Report
is the Montgomery Courthouse

Judge Mark Fuller

In the first chapter of the
Code of Conduct
for United States Judges,
it says, in part:

"...a judge ... should not serve
as an officer, director, active
partner, manager, advisor, or
employee of any business
other than a business closely
held and controlled by
members of the judge's family."

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