Judge Block allegations he interfered with jurors deliberations should be investigated

Luis Roman, the juror named on the affidavit said he could have been wrong about the day and time judge Federic Block entered the deliberations room but nobody told him to lie. Judge Block did refute the allegations in the affidavit produced records of his access card and telephone calls, but it appeared it was only for the time alleged. Block not only sent former Senate majority leader Pedro Espada directly to jail, denying him time to get his things in order after sentencing, but asked prosecutors to possibly charge Espada and Roman for filing a false affidavit. The flamboyant judge said he wore his best suit for the sentencing had commented how unusual it was that Espada spent the Sound View Clinic alleged "looted" money on his wife not a mistress since many of the elected leaders in Albany have mistresses. So he credited Espada for not keeping a mistress. Block alleged in the media reports that he didn't "trust" Espada sent him directly to jail. According to a newspaper report, "Espada had tried a variety of tricks to dodge prison, including filing an affidavit this week from a juror who claimed Block once walked into the deliberations room and spoke to jurors. Block yesterday ticked off multiple reasons as to why he couldn’t have been in the courthouse when the juror said he was, including phone records that showed he was at home that morning. He blasted Espada for filing what he said he must have known was an incorrect affidavit. The juror, Luis Roman, who said Espada’s wife contacted him and told him to come to yesterday’s hearing, later insisted outside court: “Nobody told me to lie . . . I could be mistaken about the time.”" There aught to be an investigation of the allegations on the claim in the affidavit that Judge Block wrongfully interfered in the deliberations of the jurors not only on the day in question but at other times and days now that juror Luis Roman alleged it happened though he might have been incorrect about the time and day he alleged in the affidavit. And the investigation should be conducted by an independent group other than Judge Block and the same federal prosecutors prosecuting Espada.

Former Sen. Pedro Espada sentence to prison

Former Senador Pedro Espada sentence to five years prison. In 2009, Espada appointed majority leader of the NYS Senate after a political gridlock on June 2009 that stopped the Albany government from conducting any business. In his new title Espada was also president pro temp of the Senate and served as governor when ever David Paterson left the State and would have succeeded the governor if he had to step down or died. So this battle of political succession to the governorship was the problem. Republicans and Democrats coalesced to keep Espada from becoming the governor. This included both white and black elected officials and it was at this time that former attorney general Andrew Cuomo initiated the lawsuits that led to the conviction and finally sentenced to prison for Espada. A Latino much less a Puerto Rican was not going to be governor of New York. And today Espada sentenced to prison and Andrew Cuomo is Governor of New York.

Judge Frederic Block also ordered him to pay $368,088 in forfeiture, $368,087.43 in restitution and $118,531 to the IRS. He also has to serve 100 hours of community service.

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El silencio de Bergoglio el Papa nuevo

Para el los juicioso e imparcial ha quedado claro desde hace años que la parte alta de la iglesia argentina contenía muchas "ovejas perdidas en el desierto", los hombres que habían comulgado y apoyó la... brutal occidental apoyada dictadura militar que tomó el poder en ese país en 1976 y aseguradas en él durante años. No sólo los generales mata a miles injustamente, y el abandono de ellos a menudo por aviones sobre el Río de la Plata y la venta de sus niños huérfanos..., sino que también asesinaron... dos obispos y muchos sacerdotes. Lo que no he oído de los miembros de alto rango de la jerarquía argentina era una expresión de (lamento) por la colaboración de la iglesia en estos crímenes. La extensión de la complicidad de la iglesia en los hechos oscuros se estableció excelentemente por Horacio Verbitsky, uno de los periodistas más destacados de la Argentina, en su libro El Silencio (Silence). Él recuerda cómo la armada argentina con la complicidad del cardenal Jorge Bergoglio, arzobispo jesuita ahora la de Buenos Aires, se escondió de una delegación de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos de los presos políticos de la dictadura. Bergoglio les estaba ocultando nada menos que en su casa de vacaciones en una isla llamada El Silencio en el Río de la Plata. Lo más vergonzoso para la iglesia es que en tales circunstancias el nombre Bergoglio fue permitido avanzar en la votación para elegir al sucesor de Juan Pablo II. ¿Qué escándalo no le han sobrevenido si el primer papa en ser elegido en el continente de América había sido revelado como un cómplice de asesinato y detención ilegal... por Hugh O'Shaughnessy guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 4 January 2011

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