Corruption probe indicts Siegelman and Scrushy

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Corruption probe indicts Siegelman and Scrushy
Ex-governor says case aims to control election
Thursday, October 27, 2005
By TAYLOR BRIGHT
Times Montgomery Bureau tbright@htimes.com
MONTGOMERY - Former Gov. Don Siegelman and former HealthSouth Chief Executive Officer Richard Scrushy have been indicted along with two ranking officials in Siegelman's administration in a case involving federal charges of bribery, extortion and racketeering.

The 30-count indictment, filed Wednesday in federal court in Montgomery at the end of a lengthy grand jury investigation, charges that Siegelman and his former chief of staff, Paul Hamrick, "established a criminal enterprise in which official actions were exchanged for bribes."

Siegelman reacted angrily.

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Prosecutors also say Siegelman, who is running for governor in 2006, accepted "$500,000 to $600,000" from a person they would not name.

Siegelman, a Democrat, said the charges are an attempt to influence the governor's race.

"A few obsessed government officials have spent millions of taxpayers' dollars in a pathetic attempt to control the election for governor because they don't trust the people of Alabama enough to let them make that decision on

I think Randi Rhodes is keeping a list.

Don't know about Scrushy

He looted the company through fraudalent acts, cooked the books so shareholds were left with nothing. Many of his underlings are already in jail.