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Blotter: Foley Unlikely to Be Charged
An epilogue, of sorts:
Disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley, whose e-mails and instant messages to teenage former congressional pages shocked the country, may avoid criminal prosecution in Florida because of the state's three-year statute of limitations.The Florida Department of Law Enforcement did not start a criminal investigation of Foley until November 2006, making it nearly impossible to prosecute what some officials regarded as the best case, an explicit instant message sent by Foley to a 17-year-old high school student in February 2003, when Foley was in Pensacola, Fla.
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One might consider a conspiracy of silence, but the law enforcement people responsible seem to have done nothing when they knew about it. Isn't that a crime?
September 14, 2007 10:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's good. He'll be on Matthews ("I like Foley")in no time talking about exploited children, internet crimes and sickos who perpetrate.
September 14, 2007 12:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Feel free to leave the suggestion out there that, but for the statute of limitations, some vague laws were broken. The FBI determined that the email exchanges had violated no laws. End of story.
September 14, 2007 1:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Feel free to leave the suggestion out there that, but for the statute of limitations, some vague laws were broken. The FBI determined that the email exchanges had violated no laws. End of story.
September 14, 2007 1:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Shouldn't the headline be something like "GOP Leaders Help Pedophile Escape Prosecution"?
September 14, 2007 1:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sure, Menlo Bob, sure. You go ahead and send sexually explict emails and instant messages asking for penis measurements to a bunch of 17-year-old high school students and we'll see how your 'no laws violated' claim holds up when the Feebs come for you.
Unlike Foley, you'd go to prison for *years* due to federally mandated minimum sentencing because those severe no-exception minimums are exactly what Foley himself wrote and pushed to get made into law.
Unlike Foley, they won't wait years, either, until the statute of limiatations runs out before they start to prosecute you.
Sheesh. Another dishonest foolish republican apologist. (As if there were any other kind...)
September 14, 2007 1:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sounds like Foley should be a candidate for incarceration at Gitmo. If we must have a Gitmo lets at least use it to put away those know are a threat to public safety.
September 14, 2007 2:00 PM | Reply | Permalink