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To: Man on the moon who wrote (89708)	1/24/2005 11:15:53 PM
From: Byter	Respond to of 122087

let's not forget that the bigger and more impacting crimes happen in the stock market every day without any legal action on that front. Amen to that but still have my own opinion of A@P and I believe what he got he deserved. One must remember: Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power. Byter

To: Man on the moon who wrote (89708)	1/24/2005 11:16:15 PM
From: olivier asser	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

If one digs deep, one will discover that certain people on the ausa prosecution team has very close ties to the scammy nasd Get a grip, man, are you insane? If that were true then how did a federal judge, appointed for life, therefore completely independent, ever allow this case to proceed to trial? Does every member of the jury, required to be unanimous for a criminal conviction, also have ulterior motives? Oh, OK.

To: Man on the moon who wrote (89708)	1/24/2005 11:18:37 PM
From: olivier asser	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

elgindy never in his life had 300 people paying $600 a month. towards the end he had 100 and change, and the average price paid was in the area of $300 to $400 or so. his web hoster took a nice chunk of that every month. That's $30-40,000 a month. I'm sure there are plenty here who know very well that in order to host a chat like AP had going the ongoing overheads are on the order of less than $1,000 a month.

To: Man on the moon who wrote (89708)	1/24/2005 11:20:47 PM
From: olivier asser	Respond to of 122087

my heart goes out to faith and the kids in this hard day. i sincerely hope she gets herself and family together on a track for the future. I certainly agree with you there: Message 20981032 To: lucky_girl who wrote (2489) 1/24/2005 11:01:39 PM From: olivier asser of 2491 I feel sorry for his children. The oldest is only 12. We should all say a prayer tonight for his children. Amen. I did, and for his wife, Mary Faith, also, poor woman! So many innocent victims. Very, very sad. Such talent and promise wasted on the altar of deception and greed.

To: Man on the moon who wrote (89708)	1/24/2005 11:28:57 PM
From: Pluvia	Respond to of 122087

great post. thanks for writing it. i for one feel heartbroken today. i don't really know why, other than we had some really great, literally fall on the floor laughing times (probably crushing the life outta oli ass,er's longs doh!)... as much as i knew ap was completely un-trustworthy and you could never believe anything that came out of his mouth, alot of what came out was pretty damn funny at times. i hate the thought of him literally killing himself in jail... but i think any significant sentence makes that a real possibility. it's almost worse than a death, because in this case i'm afraid ap's fragile mental state will just deteriorate, and the funny, "kid like" ap we knew might be gone forever. i guess i do know why i'm heartbroken today. i'm going to miss ap. i already do.

To: Man on the moon who wrote (89708)	1/24/2005 11:44:18 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 122087

Tony Elgindy has been living at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC). Prison life is tough, but if you are Muslim and somehow end up at the Brooklyn MDC, all I can say is good luck to you. ===== Prison Scandal: Brooklyn's Version of Abu Ghraib? Our Abu Ghraib? Former inmates at a Brooklyn detention center are suing the Justice Department on charges of abuse By Michael Isikoff Newsweek May 24 issue - Even as the Pentagon seeks to quell the furor over Abu Ghraib, the Justice Department is trying to make sure a similar scandal doesn't erupt closer to home. At issue: more than 300 hours of secret videotapes from a U.S. prison facility in Brooklyn, N.Y., where many Arab and Muslim detainees were incarcerated in the months after 9/11. On the tapes, according to a report by federal investigators, prison guards slam inmates into walls, twist their arms and wrists and subject them to humiliating strip searches in which, in some cases, male prisoners were forced to stand naked in the presence of female guards; in others, prison guards "laughed, exchanged suggestive looks and made funny noises." The existence of the tapes was first disclosed late last year in a blistering report on conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn by the Justice Department's inspector general. But the tapes got little attention at the time, in part because only a handful of blurry stills from the videos were released. But now attorneys in two lawsuits filed against top Justice officials on behalf of former inmates tell NEWSWEEK they plan to push for full release of the videos, arguing that, as with Abu Ghraib, the visual evidence can make the case far more powerfully than mere allegations from prisoners. "There are clear parallels here," says Nancy Chang, a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights, which has brought one of the cases. So far, Justice has refused to release any of the tapes. One reason, says Bureau of Prisons spokesman Dan Dunne, is that disclosure could violate the "privacy" rights of the prison guards, about a dozen of whom are being investigated for possible disciplinary action. (Federal prosecutors recently closed a criminal probe of the guards, in part because the victims had all been deported to foreign countries and weren't available to testify, one official says.) The allegations of mistreatment date back to the Justice Department's post-9/11 round-up of more than 1,200 foreign nationals largely on minor immigration violations. None was ever charged with any terror-related crimes. In response to complaints, the Justice I.G. launched an investigation into the handling of the inmates at the Brooklyn facility. Prison officials first denied any mistreatment; one official insisted staff members were "very polite" with the detainees. Then investigators discovered the videotapes hidden in a storage locker. Among the most egregious of the abuses documented on the tapes, investigators found, were repeated and degrading strip searches that were used "to intimidate and punish detainees." (In a lawsuit filed this month, one Muslim former inmate alleges that he was subjected to repetitive strip searches at the Brooklyn facility, in which guards inserted a flashlight and pencil into his rectum.) Dunne says the Bureau of Prisons has already taken steps to address the I.G. report, including a new "zero tolerance" policy for abuse of inmates, and another about to be announced for bidding any videotaping of strip searches. "We've taken these findings very seriously," he says. © 2004 Newsweek, Inc. msnbc.msn.com