Legal lineup in Oakhill case totals 19

Will Robert Duvall playing Tom Hagen be a Cafaro lawyer?

Will Dave Betras be organizing the Cafaro defense ?

PUTTING A SPIN ON IT ALL

http://pecchiacomm.com/blog/2010/03/0...

{The memorandum says prosecutors told the defendants they could expect to receive more than 50,000 documents from the prosecutors in the pretrial evidence exchange, known as discovery, but prosecutors didn’t say “when or in what form the documents would be produced.” }

50,000 documents!!!!!!!!! This trial is not going to happen for a loooong time, and when it does, it is going to take a looooong time. Of course, this judge has a history of throwing out some charges when related to public corruption indictment, so maybe the defendants won't be defending themselves against all the charges anyway.

I'm sure the defenses will be dropping some bombshells along the way too.

I bet all involved, the Cafaros, the other defendants, the non-charged commissioners will at the end of all this wish they had all walked away at the very beginning and just did something completely different.

Prosecuters are driven by ego not by justice. Therefore, they will no doubt run for office and write books (cash in) if they send the Cafaro family members to prison.

@ Stan

That's no spin he was documented as involved already,..

However, for what they stand to loose if exposing such another overt display. I'd highly doubt Betras will be caught on the courts docket in any formal capacity as counsel for any of the indicted.

If he does that the ownership of whats known as the local faction of the democrat party. Will be damned all to hell no matter how the trials turn out.

See this case isn't being tried in the public in anyway of baseless assumption.

There's more than enough factual history, connection, circumstance, instance and motive to see what happened and who all is connected as criminally improper.

Thus if Betras surfaces in anyway involved with this it'll speak volumes as to his accord and interest and it'd be far from merely political.

For which many are waiting to see if they'd dare go that far again. Which if they do the onlooking public whom make up the electorate will draw a confirmed conclusion.

Which would be a display that I'd believe would spell disaster and mass abandonment of their candidates come November and hence forth until Betras is replaced.

On that note I'm not so sure a sizable number of voters aren't already rethinking support of those candidates.

@ FifthAve

Not all of them,..

Prosecutors are far more generally targeted to be criminally owned than any influence of their egos.

See just like judges they too hold pivotal position in the orchestration of order or disorder in the courts.

They're geared to navigating far beyond any book deals and you wouldn't believe the amounts of dirty money, favors and criminally connected networks alliance that they either vie for, play to or reject.

See just like a judge if you watch how the prosecutor postures on cases. You can unquestionably tell if you've exposed to a criminal shill or the real deal.

I will be interested to see what happens in these cases--in my opinion the possible origin of this whole thing is a matter of vengeance by King George Tablack. Remember, the county had to pay the Cafaros close to one million dollars because they did nothing to maintain the DHS quarters on Garland Avenue. Also, it is my understanding that the employees at DHS were threatened in an E-mail with criminal prosecution by King George if they dared to express any opposition to the Oak Hill matter.It will be interesting to see how justifiable opposition to the purchase of Oak Hill has become criminalized.

Cassie, you are wrong, plain and simple. This case has nothing to do with Tablack except that he was the commissioners lead person on the purchase of Oakhill. Remember, these charges have NOTHING to do with whether Oakhill was a good purchase or not. It has to do with elected leaders conspiring with others with a vested interest in the deal not going through, and the troubles and costs they put the county through over a 2 year period.

I think you are right, it's horrible that the county had to pay the Cafaros that money, and unfortunate that part of it was actually truly do the developers. However, the main cause of the problems at Garland was a roof that the Cafaro company had the gall to say was not part of the building that they were responsible for. There was plastic sheets draped from the ceiling over the computer mainframes at JFS for criminy sakes!

I personally think Oakhill will be a good deal in the end, but again, that is not what these charges are about. The office holders should resign immediately and they all should see jail time with the possible exception of Flora, though she is still involved.