by Linda Cheek, MD | Aug, Thu, 2017 | Plea agreement |
How do you get rid of a natural healing physician and pad the DOJ budget at the same time? Here’s how. Michael Kostenko, DO, 61, of Daniels, WV was handed the highest sentence possible on one charge—20 years in prison. Let’s hope we can end this nightmare and get...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Mon, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Chapter 16: Truth Be Told Long before the Barge trial, Ruemmler, Friedrich, Weissmann, and Hemann knew exactly what evidence the Merrill defendants needed for their defense. They knew that a “best-efforts” agreement to remarket the barges was lawful. These prosecutors...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Sat, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Chapter 8 Continued: Bayly, incarcerated at Petersburg, Furst at Seagoville, and Jim Brown at Fort Dix, lived in daily fear of being attacked—by the guards as much as by the inmate population. There was no privacy. The filth and bugs were everywhere. Prison was...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jan, Fri, 2017 | Licensed to Lie |
Chapter 4: The Nigerian Barge Deal: No crime here, but people are going to prison. In going over the indictment of Jim Brown and his colleagues, Ms. Powell noted that there were no real criminal offenses in the indictment. Instead, it cobbled together parts of...