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Old 08-16-2014, 06:28 AM  
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Rick Perry: Texas governor indicted for abuse of power allegations

Dum dee dee, dee-dum......dum.


http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...abuse-of-power

Quote:


Texas governor Rick Perry has been indicted for abuse of power after carrying out a threat to veto funding for state public corruption prosecutors.

The potential Republican candidate for president in 2016 is accused of abusing his official powers by publicly promising to veto $7.5m for the state public integrity unit at the Travis County district attorney’s office.

He was indicted by an Austin grand jury on Friday on felony counts of abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant. Maximum punishment on the first charge is five to 99 years in prison. The second is two to 10 years.
More at http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...abuse-of-power

and
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/us...fice.html?_r=0
and
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.c...felonies.html/
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