Archive for March 25th, 2022

Obit watch: March 25, 2022.

Friday, March 25th, 2022

Scoey Mitchell, comedian and actor.

Born on March 12, 1930, in Newburgh, New York, Roscoe Mitchell Jr. started out as a nightclub comedian. For one joke, he talked about mowing the lawn outside his new house when a white man complimented his work and asked how much he was getting paid. He said, “I get to sleep with the lady inside.”

Credits (other than “Barefoot In the Park”) include “Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling”, and guest shots on “Lou Grant”, “Police Story”, and “The Six Million Dollar Man”.

Yvan Colonna. This is a couple of days old, and you’ve probably never heard of him, but the case is interesting.

Mr. Colonna was a Corsican nationalist.

Corsica is closer to Italy than France in language, culture and geography, and it is home to a nationalist movement that has mostly renounced violence but remains deeply rooted on the island.

In 1998, Claude Érignac, who was basically France’s appointed governor of Corsica, was shot and killed.

Mr. Colonna, who had always claimed his innocence in Mr. Érignac’s murder, was first sought by the French police in 1999, after investigators arrested a group of men suspected of involvement in the killing. Several of them identified Mr. Colonna as the gunman, although they would later retract their statements, accusing the police of having pressured them.

Mr. Colonna evaded capture for four years. He was convicted of murder in 2007. That conviction was later overturned, but he was convicted again in 2011 and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Three weeks ago, Mr. Colonna was attacked by another inmate:

…a known Islamist extremist who had been convicted on terrorism charges and had a history of violent acts in prison. The inmate, identified by French authorities as Franck Elong Abé, 35, beat, strangled and suffocated Mr. Colonna in the prison gym.
Mr. Elong Abé later told investigators that he had heard Mr. Colonna make “blasphemous” comments. Prosecutors have opened an investigation. But it is still unclear how the attack was able to last nearly 10 minutes without any intervention from prison guards.

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You’re going down in flames, you tax-fattened hyena! (#84 in a series)

Friday, March 25th, 2022

Missed this yesterday, but: Jeff Fortenberry (R-Nebraska) was convicted. (Previously.)

A federal jury deliberated less than two hours before convicting the nine-term Nebraska congressman on one count of concealing conduit campaign contributions and two counts of lying to federal agents.

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The congressman faces up to five years in prison on each count, although he could also receive supervised release.
Ironically, he does not have to give up his congressional seat. Federal law requires members of Congress to give up their seats only for crimes that are tied to treason.

I’m sorry, but you know I have to do this.

Going back to the story, though, he does face a primary challenge from Mike Flood (a state senator).

The investigation ramped up when the FBI discovered that a Nigerian billionaire, Gilbert Chagoury, had been funneling cash into the campaigns of four Republican politicians: former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, current California Rep. Darrell Issa, former Nebraska Rep. Lee Terry and Fortenberry.
It is illegal for U.S. elected officials to accept foreign money.
The World-Herald asked prosecutor Mack Jenkins, who led the case with the help of prosecutors Susan Har and Jamari Buxton, if Fortenberry would have been prosecuted had he gotten rid of the money soon after learning it was suspect. The other three politicians weren’t prosecuted; they got rid of any illegal money soon after they were confronted. Fortenberry took 2 ½ years to give his to charity. And was evasive along the way.

Mitt Romney, you say? Hmmmm hmmmm hmmmm.

In other news, I don’t know that I want to do a full flaming hyenas on this one, but I can’t resist the NYPost:

It was the usual: she got drunk…

…allegedly said one girl was an “acne f–ker,” and hurled multiple insults at other young girls as well.
“Hispanic f–ker,” she allegedly said to one girl attending the sleepover and “judgy f–ker,” to another.

She also threw up in a laundry basket and someone’s shoe. The article doesn’t specify if the shoe belonged to “judgy f–ker”, but I’d personally be pretty judgy if someone threw up in my shoe.

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