Legal rules have changed, allowing federal agents, prosecutors to bypass basic rights.
November 22, 1998
By Bill Moushey, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
Loren Pogue has served eight years of a 22-year federal prison sentence on drug conspiracy and money laundering charges.
Pogue, a Missouri native, never bought drugs, never sold them, never held them, never used them, never smuggled them, never even saw them.
But because federal prosecutors allowed a paid government informant to lie about Pogue’s involvement in the sale of a parcel of land to supposed drug smugglers, he was convicted. Under tough federal sentencing guidelines, a judge had no choice but to give the Air Force veteran what might effectively be a death sentence.
Pogue — father of 27 children, 15 of them adopted — is 65. He doesn’t expect to leave prison alive, and as details later in this story will show, he is baffled that the government he served for more than 30 years worked so hard to betray him.
This is a fascinating series of ten reports on the criminal justice system n America...very disturbing...and it is nearly 10 years old...things have only gotten worse since then....Fascism did not arrive with the Bush administration folks...accelerated under his regime perhaps, but it has been a slow and steady progression for years.
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