Satanist Edwards' Lawyers Charged Over Illegal Campaign Donations

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Ex-Kevorkian Atty Charged Over Donations

Friday, August 24, 2007

DETROIT -- Attorney Geoffrey Fieger, best known for representing assisted

suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, was indicted on charges of conspiring to

make more than $125,000 in illegal contributions to the 2004 presidential

campaign of Democrat John Edwards.

The indictment was returned Tuesday and unsealed Friday. It names both

Fieger and Vernon Johnson, a partner in Fieger's Southfield-based law firm.

Fieger told radio station WWJ-AM that he would fight the charges and wasn't

surprised by them. He blamed the Bush administration.

"We'll just embarrass these people," Fieger said.

Messages seeking further comment from Fieger and Johnson weren't immediately

returned.

The indictment claims that Fieger, 56, of Bloomfield Hills, and Johnson, 45,

of Birmingham, recruited 60 people, known as straw donors, to make

contributions in the then-maximum allowable amount of $2,000 per donor to

the Edwards campaign. The contributions actually came from Fieger's firm,

the indictment says.

The U.S. attorney's office in Detroit said that campaign officials for

Edwards, then a U.S. senator, weren't aware of the alleged actions, and that

Edwards and his campaign staff cooperated fully with the investigation.

Fieger has maintained he had nothing to do with his staff's financial

support for Edwards.

Federal agents raided his Southfield offices in 2005, taking payroll and

other financial documents, as well as ticket stubs for a fundraiser for

Edwards and other campaign materials.

According to the indictment, Fieger and Johnson recruited a first round of

employees or family members of employees as donors in March 2003, arranging

$38,000 worth of illegal contributions. They later solicited additional

donors, including non-attorney employees, Fieger's friends and third-party

vendors for Fieger or the firm, the indictment says.

The indictment also claims Fieger tried to obstruct the grand jury's

investigation by trying to shift responsibility for the contributions to a

deceased officer of the Fieger firm and feeding grand jury witnesses false

information.

Both men are charged with conspiracy, causing the Edwards campaign to

unwittingly make false statements, making illegal campaign contributions in

another's name and making illegal campaign contributions from a corporation.

A court appearance for Fieger and Johnson wasn't immediately scheduled, said

Gina Balaya, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office.

Fieger is known for his flamboyant courtroom style and outspokenness,

notably in his former role as attorney for Kevorkian. The assisted suicide

advocate claimed to have attended more than 130 deaths before being

convicted of second-degree murder in 1999.

Fieger also ran for governor as a Democrat in 1998, losing to incumbent

Republican John Engler.

All you have to do is read any of the hate-filled, vile posts of PG to

know his true God and Lord is Satan, despite what he claims.

-Tom Sr.