Alberto Gonzales Defense Fund Begins

Supporters of former attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales have created a trust fund to help pay for his legal expenses, which are mounting in the face of an ongoing Justice Department investigation into whether Gonzales committed perjury or improperly tampered with a congressional witness.

The establishment of a legal defense fund for the nation's former chief law enforcement officer underscores the potential peril confronting Gonzales, who is one of a handful of attorneys general to face potential criminal charges for actions taken in office.

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Comments

[StillAmused]

09:19 AM on 11/16/2007

A fitting epitaph for the chief LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER of the United States...

A fucking LEGAL DEFENSE FUND.

Couldn't have done it without ya', Junior. You have a real eye for character.

[nomobull]

12:24 AM on 11/16/2007

WHAT DO YOU NEED A DEFENSE FUND FOR IF ACCORDING TO YOU THERE WAS NO WRONG DOING

[kardwell]

10:14 PM on 11/15/2007

Saudi gang-rape victim is jailed
By Frances Harrison
BBC News

An appeal court in Saudi Arabia has doubled the number of lashes and added a jail sentence as punishment for a woman who was gang-raped.

The victim was initially punished for violating laws on segregation of the sexes - she was in an unrelated man's car at the time of the attack.

When she appealed, the judges said she had been attempting to use the media to influence them.

The attackers' sentences - originally of up to five years - were doubled.

Extra penalties

According to the Arab News newspaper, the 19-year-old woman, who is from Saudi Arabia's Shia minority, was gang-raped 14 times in an attack in the eastern province a year-and-a-half ago.

Seven men from the majority Sunni community were found guilty of the rape and sentenced to prison terms ranging from just under a year to five years.

But the victim was also punished for violating Saudi Arabia's laws on segregation that forbid unrelated men and women from associating with each other. She was initially sentenced to 90 lashes for being in the car of a strange man.

On appeal, the Arab News reported that the punishment was not reduced but increased to 200 lashes and a six-month prison sentence.

The rapists also had their prison terms doubled. But the sentences are still low considering they could have faced the death penalty.

The Arab News quoted an official as saying the judges had decided to punish the girl for trying to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media.

The victim's lawyer was suspended from the case, has had his licence to work confiscated, and faces a disciplinary session.

[HoustonBlogger]

09:31 PM on 11/15/2007

Why do Republican office-holders--rich enough already--need others to pay for their lawyers? I don't recall a Bill Clinton legal defense fund, but Tom DeLay, Scooter Libby and Alberto Gonzalez all need one.

[fourex]

07:39 PM on 11/15/2007

I thought Feinstein and Bechtel were funding Gonzo.

[elleanee]

06:46 PM on 11/15/2007

hahahaha! i really think they must be kidding about donating to his legal defense fund. hahahahahahaha!

[ICantBeBothered]

05:54 PM on 11/15/2007

Christ!

I'm going broke donating money to all these neo nut jobs and their F'ing legal defense funds.

tom delay
lewis libby
bernie kerik
abu gonzo

I suppose barry bonds is going to start a legal defense fund, too.

If you think about it, these scum buckets are pretty smart in getting other idiots to pay their legal bills. I mean, why should any of these *multi-millionaires* spend any of their own money?

kerik is so cheap he takes his dates to donated apts.

I hope they all die a slow miserable death.

[azhiker]

04:46 PM on 11/15/2007

A picture of the WORST President with his criminal sidekick, the WORST Attorney General in history. This administration is just great at producing the WORST in every area they touch.

Abu Gonzales should be in jail right now, not trying to have people give him more money than he's already stolen.

[WARisEVIL]

04:29 PM on 11/15/2007

The dipshit looking horse's ass on the left is why the world thinks America is a 'Nation of Idiots' and of course they are right.

[kellygrrrl]

04:05 PM on 11/15/2007

The Neo-Convicts got yo' back, Homie G

[RedRooster]

03:58 PM on 11/15/2007

I hope Abu Gonzales' criminal lawyers bankrupt him.

Financial bankruptcy simply would be complementary
to the moral bankruptcy he has already experienced.

[hollywoody5000]

03:18 PM on 11/15/2007

I WOULD ONLY CONTRIBUTE TO A FUND THAT WOULD PUT GONZO BONZO'S SORRY ASS BEHIND BARS WHERE IT BELONGS.

[KYJurisDoctor]

02:53 PM on 11/15/2007

He should pay for his own defense fund and Dick Cheney should "chip in".

http://OsiSpeaks.com or http://OsiSpeaks.org

[darker]

02:29 PM on 11/15/2007

Bush + Gonzales: the two MOST DISGUSTING
FRAT-BRAT BOYS in America.

All the opportunistic, corrupt guys have FAILED AMERICA.

It's time to vote for women.

[LaFeminazi]

01:48 PM on 11/15/2007

Surprise surprise

Fox Noise gets to interview Bush.

I bet they don't ask him about Gonzo.