Mississippi Sheriff prosecuted for distributing FEMA's ice?
| By Bobby - Mar 25th, 2006 at 10:45 am EST |
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I hadn't heard about this:
Now, that sheriff could be prosecuted on charges of interfering with a federal operation.Looks like the Justice Department suffers from the same remarkable, unmitigated incompetence and lack of basic human decency as the rest of this right-wing Administration.
Forrest County Sheriff Billy McGee commandeered two 18-wheelers full of ice from Camp Shelby, a Federal Emergency Management Agency staging area, after five days passed with little relief for residents living without electricity in the wake of the deadly storm.
"Man, I was wanting to hug Brother Billy when I saw that ice. We were glad somebody was there to help us," Walker, who would not give his age, said Wednesday.
McGee had worked out a deal to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of interfering, intimidating and impeding a federal officer, but U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton withdrew from the case without explanation and the Justice Department sent it to federal prosecutors in Louisiana.
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