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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Scooter Libby Convicted On 4 Out Of 5


The highest ranking person in this administraction has been convicted on four out of five charges mounted against him. He is the first White House official to be convicted since the "Iran Contra Affairs". He was sentenced to thirty months behind bars. Which under federal guidelines require that he do at least twenty-four of them. Federal guidelines require that he do at least eighty percent of the time given. According to some Legal Analyst "two years in prison is a very long time for a white collar crime".

Fact file Verdict in the Scooter Libby trial

The individual charges and their corresponding verdicts in the trial of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby:
Charge Verdict
Obstruction of justice Guilty
False statements to FBI investigators (concerning conversations with NBC newsman Tim Russert) Guilty
False statement to FBI investigators (concerning conversations with Time reporter Matt Cooper) Not guilty
Perjury to the grand jury (Russert conversation) Guilty
Perjury to the grand jury (Cooper conversation) Guilty

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