Saturday, 6 September 2014, RICHMOND, VA - In what appears to be a growing national epidemic of criminal misdoing by elected and appointed Republican government officials as well as their cronies and family members Virginia's former Republican Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen this past Thursday 4 September 2014 were convicted by a federal jury on "overwhelming evidence" of corruption charges encompassing conspiracy, bribery and extortion. Despite Republican pundits' unrealistically trite public dismissal of the federal indictments against the pair as unfounded not unlike the current case of federally indicted Texas Idiot Governor Rick "Payback" Perry the jury apparently did not agree characterizing the evidence against the Republican former Governor and his wife as "overwhelming" and in just seventeen hours of deliberations returning with guilty verdicts on eleven federal corruption counts against McDonnell and nine federal corruption counts against his wife Maureen. Republican pundits and the pair reportedly responded with "shock" to the verdicts which could land them in federal prison for the rest of their lives.
The link below is to the most recent New York Times article to be published today regarding the prospects of the pair's appeals particularly expected to be based on one of the Court's jury instructions which contains further links in the article's body and sidebar to earlier Times articles providing further details on the trial and Thursday's convictions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/06/us/juror-says-evidence-against-ex-virginia-governor-was-overwhelming.html?_r=0
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