TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime

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Too early to say he committed no crime. (5.00 / 1) (#16)
by Geekesque on Sun Sep 16, 2007 at 01:58:14 PM EST

Let the authorities follow this guy's money trails and conduct an investigation before we decry how he's been treated in the media.

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: He has already committed a crime. (none / 0) (#18)
by jimakaPPJ on Sun Sep 16, 2007 at 11:09:20 PM EST

...And convicted... and fled..... and been exposed and then surrendered (over the phone) and then fled....
The questions are.... Did he defraud SFI??
Did he make illegal contributions?

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: Huh? (none / 0) (#19)
by LarryE on Mon Sep 17, 2007 at 01:40:09 AM EST

Too early to say he committed no crime
Say what? What kind of backwards "guilty until proven innocent" approach is that?
The issue here is that there has been a lot of hinting, innuendo, and nudge-nudge insinuation that he is guilty of illegal campaign contributions - but no actual evidence. And that is not proper journalism and it unfairly tars any candidate who may have received a contribution from him.
Is he being investigated for illegal contributions? If he is, I would assume investigators have some evidence indicating there's something there. But it doesn't appear that he is.
I say again: Absence of evidence is absence of evidence.
And the absence of evidence is by definition not a basis to call for investigations.

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