Rick Koerber and the Government’s new 22-Count Indictment
November 11, 2009 by Rick Koerber
Filed under Controversy
Official Statement
From Mr. Koerber’s Legal Defense Team
Re: News of the superseding indictment reported in the local media on the evening of Tuesday, November 10, 2009
“Nothing has been filed. We learned of the superseding indictment from the government’s press release. Apparently the government’s practice here is to issue a press release to the public before giving the defense an opportunity to review the underlying document. So, we are unable to comment on the specifics.
“Notably, Mr. Koerber’s lead attorney was on the phone with the prosecutors today discussing matters in the case, and they did not say anything about it. Nevertheless, an increase in the number of counts does not change the flawed and disjointed foundation of the government’s case. Judging from its press release, the government seems to be trying to stretch the same allegations over more and more charges. These are the same allegations, mind you, that the government first asserted in the course of an investigation which an independent government Auditor has described as “inappropriate” and “inconsistent” with “established policies and procedures.” The head of the investigation now is the same individual who first referred this matter to the Attorney General of the State of Utah—the Attorney General, of course, declined to prosecute the case for a lack of any real evidence of wrongdoing. Adding more words and allegations should not change the fundamental conclusion.”
—End
Indicted.
May 27, 2009 by Rick Koerber
Filed under Controversy
“In the filthy howling now going on all around us, ” said an editorial in the Banner, signed”Gail Wynand” in big letters, “nobody seems to remember that Howard Roark surrendered himself of his own free will. If he blew up that building—did he have to remain at the scene to be arrested? But we don’t wait to discover his reasons. We have convicted him without a hearing. We want him to be guilty. We are delighted with this case. What you hear is not indignation—its gloating. Any illiterate maniac, any worthless moron who commits some revolting murder, gets shrieks of sympathy from us and marshals an army of humanitarian defenders. But a man of genius is guilty by definition. Granted that it is a vicious injustice to condemn a man simply because he is weak and small. To what level of depravity has a society descended when it condemns a man simply because he is strong and great? Such, however, is the whole moral atmosphere of our century—the century of the second-rater.”
“We hear it shouted,” said another Wynan editorial, “that Howard Roark spends his career in and out of courtrooms. Well, that is true. A man like Roark is on trial before society all his life. Whom does that indict—Roark or society?”
—from Ayn Rand’s, The Fountainhead.
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