Corruption in Politics Lands Innocent Man Behind Bars
This case exemplifies the problem with our legal system: it is fraught with corruption. Federal judges have a cordial relationship with Department of Justice prosecutors and want to keep it that way. No one wants to get on the wrong side of the powerful DOJ, especially when the president is calling the shots and can have anyone targeted. A former manager at the DOJ told me about a year ago that attorneys there just dutifully and quietly took their walking orders from above, fully aware their bosses were instructing them to target people they didn't like.
Compounding the problem in Renzi's case is the complexity of the case. The left goes out of its way to target conservatives involved in complex business deals, because they know the average American (or juror) does not have the time nor knowledge to understand the facts in these types of cases. Use the phrases "white collar crime" and "public corruption" and everyone will start nodding, even if they have no idea what the facts are — it just sounds vaguely unethical.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a former U.S. Attorney for the DOJ, admitted during the third Republican presidential debate last week that the Justice Department has decided who they want to pick as winners and losers.
They like General Motors, so they give them a pass. They don't like somebody else like David Petraeus, they prosecute them and send a decorated general on to disgrace. It's a political Justice Department.
While General Petraeus may have done an outstanding job as a general, in his personal morals, he failed, which may have put the country at risk. He was prosecuted for far less than Hillary Clinton is accused of.
Renzi has suffered for too long in prison since February. Upon first glance, this seems like just any other criminal case. But once you start looking under the prosecutorial spin, the facts just don't convict Renzi and certainly provide no justification for sending him to prison.
