Cheney's indictment in south Texas moves forward
The grand jury traced a sketchy line between Cheney's influence over the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency, which oversees the county's federal immigrant detention center, and his substantial holdings in the Vanguard Group, which invests in private prison companies.
Combining those interests, the grand jury accused Cheney of a conflict of interest because the more the prison companies were paid to hold inmates, the better he did ...
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Suppressing my own interest in the charges and counter-charges in this case, I lament that nearly 800 years of legal tradition--from the Magna Carta through the US Constitution and Bill of Rights and the combined record of jurisprudence has devolved to this.