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A solid source tells the Parlor that a new federal grand jury investigation is underway related to the two-year college system. As a result of the inquiry, the federal government has requested and obtained records from various locations in the state, including, but not limited to, Northeast Alabama Community College.
There is also much scuttlebutt on the street that there may be indictments from a past grand jury that have simply not been delivered yet.
Originally posted 12:29 a.m. Bumped above news digests.
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Those sources on the 2-year college scandal sure keep the rumors flying. My question is why are the Fed’s pouring millions into this investigation? Can’t Troy King do anything?
Question is would you want Troy King to handle this or some one not beholden to the Legislature for funding? Plus there is that matter where he tried to get a relative a job in the Junior College system.
Actually, I wouldn’t mind the Fed’s catching some of the bank robbers that are knocking off banks and credit unions in my area daily. And, maybe a few terrorist too.
Willie, out of curiosity, what area of the state has such an inept police force that permits daily bank robberies? Sounds like quite a story.
You don’t have a sheriff in your county? Oh, if it’s Cullman, his job is to drive Zeb Little home from his drunken wreaks.
Zeb keeps claiming it was his dad who was driving that night.
I live in Mobile County. In the past month numerous bank and credit union robberies that involve several robbers with guns hurding people around. It is thought to be gang related since the the average bank job involves one person and a note with a threat of having a gun. In the 80’s and 90’s the FBI had teams working with local law enforcement that would stake out potential banks and areas, but no more. Times have changed.
Mr. Willie, It seems you do have a real problem down there. But we should be protected from both kinds of theft-those from armed strangers and those from our public servants whom we have entrusted with the state’s purse strings. (I’ll bet a lot more has been taken by these public servants than by the bank robbers.)
Maybe if they weren’t sending five shotgun carrying FBI agents to arrest Sue Schmitz when her lawyer offered to surrender her at the Courthouse, those agents could be trying to track down the bank robbers and we could get both problems solved?
Thanks for the info, Willie, I seem to recall about one or two a week down there. Close interstate exits make handy get aways. IIRC, the FBI decided it would be too busy hunting terrorists to handle what the local police should be doing. This too may change in 2009.
Anonymous in #10, I am sure when all this unwinds, you will want the inquisitors to be given a chance to surrender with their lawyers at the Courthouse.
Siegelman and Scrushy must be singing, again. I think both will be let out of jail in several years.
Walt- I am ot sure at all that the inquisitors in the Sue Schmitz matter have done anything wrong other than an obvious misuse of manpower in her arrest. The indictment seems on stable footing, the allegations are understandable. I actually thought she would be either first or second of the probable targets to be indicted, at least from the ones that have been revealed in the Blackledge stories. Whether a jury is convinced to the proper standard is another issue that will be determined if Schmitz and her attorneys choose to take this to trial. However, it does seem overkill to send five agents to arrest her. Surely, their time could have been better spent. And I would, indeed, say the same for any white-collar indictee whose attorney offered to surrender them at the Courthouse.
Anonymous #10, my own preference for the arrest of public employees involves the use of a brass band and as many uniformed officers as can be spared. Quiet, behind the scenes arrests, can give the impression of favoritism.