http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/15/1322018/-Gov-Rick-Perry-indicted?detail=email
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been indicted by an Austin Grand Jury over his veto of funding for the Texas Public Integrity Unit.
A grand jury was called to determine whether or not Perry broke the law when he threatened to veto the funding. As a result they issued indictments on two felony charges: abuse of official capacity and coercion of public servant. If found guilty on the charges, Perry could be sentenced to a maximum 109 years in prison. An indictment indicates the grand jury believes the state has a strong enough case to send to trial and is not a finding of guilt.
Perry promised the veto unless District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg resigned, citing her conviction for drunk driving. Others saw the veto as an attempt to gut the Public Integrity Unit, an agency responsible for violations of environmental law and the agency that began the prosecution of powerful former Rep. Tom DeLay.
Perry promised the veto unless District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg resigned, citing her conviction for drunk driving. Others saw the veto as an attempt to gut the Public Integrity Unit, an agency responsible for violations of environmental law and the agency that began the prosecution of powerful former Rep. Tom DeLay.4:16 PM PT: A very good backstory on the charges leveled against Perry can be found here.
[T]he Public Integrity Unit was in the process of conducting an investigation of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. CPRIT received a ton of money from the Legislature to award grants to high-level medical research projects. The problem: a lot of that money was going to people who shouldn’t have gotten it. And some of those folks had close ties to Perry. Just a few months ago, Lehmberg’s office indicted CPRIT’s former director over his allegedly improper disbursement of an $11 million grant. But when Lehmberg got pulled over with the potato juice in her car last spring, the investigation was just underway.
When Lehmberg’s DWI went public, Republicans saw a way to get rid of a pesky, entrenched foe. [...]
just watched Perry on Fox N... Sunday Wallace was not there the sit in threw pretty good questions when asked about this indictment he immediately went on the attack of Lehmberg and telling us what the people wanted was what he and many judges did before but never admitted any wrong on his part just tooted his thoughts as to all else that was in play except he's the one that's indicted. no one else.
when asked about the border situation where he placed Nat'l guard at a cost of 12 million a month he attacks Pres. who's paying the bill for his folly the guard can't arrest or detain? as to a run in 2016 he claims he's concerned with midterm Nov. 4th but completely ignored the fact he may be in jail, has he put in the fix? another run he's still who he was 2008 so expect the same rejection, but support from the party he fit's their criteria to a T. remember Norquist said they only need someone that can hold a pen.
