Within DNC circles, Governor Siegelman was being considered as a future candidate for the nation's highest office. Neither Rove nor his Alabama cronies would stand for that.
Almost immediately upon assuming office, Pryor (who now sits on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals) began a highly-publicized investigation leading to Don's indictment and subsequent acquittal in the Northern District of Alabama, a prosecution Presiding Federal District Court Judge U.W. Clemon called the greatest miscarriage of justice he had witnessed in his 29 years on the federal bench.
Governor Siegelman's subsequent prosecution in Alabama's Middle District, led by U.S. Attorney Leura Canary, Bill Canary's wife, resulted in his unjust conviction and resulting 7 1/2 year prison sentence. Disgraced Federal Judge Mark Fuller, a "judge with a grudge" since Don's investigation of him for Retirement Systems fraud while Fuller was a state district attorney, made sure the railroading was complete. You may know Mark Fuller as the serial wife-beating, philandering judge who has now resigned his judgeship in disgrace.
Don is now a federal prisoner in Oakdale, Lousiana, where he writes about reforming elections and the criminal justice system.
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