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Prosecutors Want To Garnish Traficant's Pension To Pay Fines
his service as Mahoning County sheriff before he was elected to Congress. An attorney from Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann's office filed a response to French's application, contending the funds are exempt from garnishment. Traficant has paid about $57,000 of his $150,000 fine out of his federal pension, French said Wednesday. Traficant, 66, who served nine terms in the House representing the Youngstown area, was convicted in 2002 of charges he received gifts and free labor from businessmen for his political help, and took cash kickbacks and free labor from staff. He is serving an eight-year prison term at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minn. His projected release is Sept. 2, 2009.
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[ NOTE: James Traficant was "framed" and taken down by the Bush/Clinton/Bush Cabal for revealing publicaly in Congress the Truth of the 1933 U. S. bankruptancy, and establishment of the U.S. Corporate Government and destruction of the Constitution.
This noble man chose jail time over martyrdom. PHB]