"The following is a list of individuals who may be called as witnesses by the Commonwealth or whose names may be mentioned during testimony" in the Veon trial beginning January 19th.Arter, Steven
Bliss, David
Brown, Alexis
Brubaker, Jennifer
Brubaker, Scott
Buxton, Eric
Carlson, Michael
Cassaro, Sue
Caton, Robert
Conrad, Kirby
Contino, John
Cook, Patrick
Cranga, Michael
Cranmer, Cynthia
Davis, Michael
Department of Treasury, Custodian of Records
Diehl, Rene
Drawbaugh, Robert
Fiore, Anthony
Fitzkee, David
Foreman, Jeff
Gift, Robert
Grill, Barbara
Hazelwood, Daryl
Herman, David
Hiller, Elizabeth
Jarbeck-Walko, Julie
Jones, John P.
King, Stacey
Kraber, Christa
Lavelle, Patrick J.
Lesperance, Wayne
Lewis, Melissa
Maas, Raymond
Mangelli, Joanna
Manzo, Michael
Manzo, Rachel
Marietta, Beth Ann
Martz, Paul
Mays, Heidi
McClure, Lauren
McDermott, Gail
Mosley, Earl
Nelson, Eric
Nero, Janet
Notorangelo, Linda
O'Malley, Brian
O'Palka, Paul
Orelli, Chester J.
Pietrandrea, Dennis
Pronesti, Richard
Quinnan, Charles
Reese, Daniel
Reese-O'Leary, Maryann
Reever, Ester
Romigh, Michael
Rosentel, Elizabeth
Rossell, James
Sabo, Nora
Sidella, Kevin
Smith, Lori
Soop, Robert
Speaks, Garrett
Stalnecker, Angela
Steiner, Karen
Tarquinio, Joseph
Texter, Cameron
Thompson, Nancy
Wagner, Jeb
Walker, Eric
Walls, Jess
Wasco, Trina
Webb, Eric
Webb, Steve
Wiedemer, Daniel
Wilt, Lori
26 comments:
Why isn't Chris Stets on that list?
The vast majority of those listed will not actually testify. If you notice it says "or may be mentioned during testimony"
Slick move by the OAG to produce a list that's a mile long. It makes it that much harder (and more expensive) for the defense to effectively do their homework.
Judge denies Veon's request to delay corruption trial:
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
By Tracie Mauriello, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau
HARRISBURG -- A judge yesterday denied former House Democratic Whip Mike Veon's request for a delay in his government corruption trial scheduled to begin Jan. 19.
Mr. Veon's lawyers had asked the court for more time to sort through 67,000 pages of evidence prosecutors provided as discovery material, but Dauphin County Common Pleas Judge Richard Lewis yesterday denied their request.
Lets see, the Judge expects Veon Lawyers to read, analyze, and prepare for responses 67,000 pages in 13 days, that come to over 5,000pages a day?????
At the same time, they must prepare for the Cross Examination of 76 Witnesses???????
Yet, the Judge refusd th continuance????????????
I great foundation for an Appeal and reversal and mistrial that I ever saw.
The Jury is going to be confused over all the charges and witnesses, just like in the Wecht Trial.
Veon will go free!
Do the defense lawyers also submit a similar list? If so, have they or when must they do so? Loos likea very long trial.
Very surprised Mchele Borlinghaus isn't on that list. Btw, will there ever be a list of everyone who got immunty or everyone who testified before the grand jury?
Bonus Gate Guilty Pleas:
Manzo initially was charged with 45 counts carrying a max sentence of 311 years and $660K in fines. #bonusgate 5 minutes ago from web
Agreement calls for Manzo to plead guilty to 10 counts carrying max sentence of 26 years imprisonment and $55K in fines. #bonusgate 5 minutes ago from web
Judge accepts plea agreement. Up next, MIke Manzo, former chief of staff to Rep. Bill DeWeese. #bonusgate 8 minutes ago from web
Brubaker will pay restitution and cost to be determined at a later date. #bonusgate
Brubaker also must give up state pension, pay restitution and cooperate with prosecution. #bonusgate 19 minutes ago from web
Sentencing won't be today. Max is 19 years imprisonment and 40K in fines. 26 minutes ago from web
Scott Brubaker is pleading guilty to 4 felonies in connection with #bonusgate. He was former House D director of staffing & administration.
The sun is setting on this sad little site.
Actually, this may be one of the most influential websites in the history of Pennsylvania, clearly affecting the prosecutions made and the Republican gubernatorial primary.
The people behind it have a great future in the new media, regardless of the outcome of the trial.
And just like that the score is 7-1.
Sorry, Rachel's single misdemeanor does not count. 6-2.
No. I think those scores are both wrong. Veon already beat Corbett once. Veon had ALL charges dismissed in front of one magistrate in the BIG case. Of course, Corbett then found ANOTHER magistrate (who just so happened to be a Republican) and lo and behold Veon lost that case at the preliminary hearing.
So the score is 7-3.
The score in front of a judge or a jury for a decision rather than a plea? Corbett 1 -- Good guys 2.
Go Team Veon!
What happened today, and what will happen later this month is nothing short of tragic.
Good people's lives are being destroyed. Say what you will, but I know these people, and I stand by them.
These are not evil men and women with evil motives. A culture existed in the Capitol before any of them arrived. They simply inherited it.
The culture dicated the rules. The rules were understood well by both sides.
Now Corbett wants to change the rules, and that is fine. There are plenty of ways for this to have been accomplished that wouldn't have to involve flat out destroying the lives of good people.
These sentences we are talking about are akin to that of murder, rape, kidnapping... Overkill would be a huge understatement here. To me it's nothing short of tragic.
Corbett should be ashamed of himself. He's been in politics too long to not know better. He played the same games or he would have been on the bench watching years ago.
Guilty plea is a guilty plea, so no, the score is 7-1.
10-1 if you count Franky and friends.
Ex-Orie intern: 'I knew I had to do something'
Read more: http://www.postgazette.com/pg/10006/1026065-454.stm#ixzz0bvQXH539
Anonymous said...What happened today, and what will happen later this month is nothing short of tragic. Good people's lives are being destroyed. Say what you will, but I know these people, and I stand by them. These are not evil men and women with evil motives. A culture existed in the Capitol before any of them arrived. They simply inherited it.
The culture dicated the rules. The rules were understood well by both sides. Now Corbett wants to change the rules, and that is fine. There are plenty of ways for this to have been accomplished that wouldn't have to involve flat out destroying the lives of good people. These sentences we are talking about are akin to that of murder, rape, kidnapping... Overkill would be a huge understatement here. To me it's nothing short of tragic. Corbett should be ashamed of himself. He's been in politics too long to not know better. He played the same games or he would have been on the bench watching years ago. January 6, 2010 10:53 PM
No Truer Words Spoken, Good Public Servants That Donated Time Beyond The 8 Hour Day For Citizens.
What I Find Shocking Is Only Some Are Being Charged When If Corbett Was Fair And Knowing He Past Practice An Patterns Developed Over Years, Then Many Offices, And Judges, And Not Just House Would Be Indicted Including The Oag.
The Senate Has Been Given A Free Pass, So Far And Corbett Run For Governor Has More To Do With These Indictments And Pleas Than Justice.
What Is So Frightening Is That There Was A Better Way To Investigate And Hold Many People Responsible For A Lack Of Ethics That Could Make The Taxpayer Whole, But Not Criminal Please Or Convictions.
I Am Not Advocating Any Kind Of Harm To Tom Corbett But This Is The Kind Of Action That Karma Wrecks Havoc Later
This Is Why It Is A Sham Of Shame And Great Pain For Many Good People!
Anonymous said...
Guilty plea is a guilty plea, so no, the score is 7-1.
10-1 if you count Franky and friends.
January 7, 2010 2:35 AM
They need to Appeal these Pleas under Duress!
Anonymous said...Ex-Orie intern: 'I knew I had to do something'
Read more: http://www.postgazette.com/pg/10006/1026065-454.stm#ixzz0bvQXH539
January 7, 2010 6:32 AM
Jane and Joan's day are coming, their Lawyer went too far on the Public Offensive, putting out a letter that has holds in it and denies many things easily proved is a fatal mistake.
Someday you hear Jane will cry tears admitting she lied, if she mailed out that letter, it is Mail Fraud.
Joan should have remain quiet and just testify before the Grand Jury and end it if there is no evidence of wrong doing.
If it goes to trial, this letter will sink her.
Joan Melvin will be taking the Fifth and drinking a few too before it is all over.
In a strange way the Judicial Conduct Board will be investigating her, the same Board she attacked in her Campaigns.
Either way, Jane and Joan will be removed if the Corbett Witch-Hunt Standards have their way.
They will be the unintended Lambs for slaughter for Corbett's Blind Ambitions.
Et tu, Jane & Joan?
Ex-Orie interns deny campaigning
By Jeremy Boren
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Last updated: 6:57 am
No one in state Sen. Jane Orie's office instructed interns to perform campaign work on the public's time, said several former interns who worked in the legislator's McCandless office.
The experiences of four paid interns who worked for Orie between 2004 and 2009 contrast with accusations from a former volunteer that the Republican Senate whip's staff performed illegal campaign work on behalf of her sister, Judge Joan Orie Melvin, who won a seat in November on the state Supreme Court.
"I volunteered for Bush's campaign, but we were told not to discuss it at the office," said Laura Piotrowski, 27, of Franklin Park, who said Orie's staff instructed interns to not discuss politics in the office when she worked there from October 2004 to January 2005. "It was very laid out for us. Interns were told, 'This office is not for politics; it's for constituents.' "
Jennifer Knapp Rioja, a University of Pittsburgh graduate student from Ross, accused Orie's staff of performing campaign work for Melvin. Rioja first took her concerns to two university professors and then to District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr., who started a county grand jury investigation.
Investigators raided Orie's McKnight Road office Dec. 11, seized computer hard drives and documents, and interviewed staff. Piotrowski and other former interns said detectives did not interview them. Mike Manko, a spokesman for Zappala, declined to comment on whether investigators plan to interview former interns.
In a letter dated Oct. 30 and released by Orie's defense attorney, Jerry McDevitt, Orie wrote to Rioja: "At no time has any member of my staff engaged in any political activity during, or on official state working time.
"For the record, I have had hundreds of interns over the years in my legislative office and I have never had any intern make these baseless, slanderous, and untrue allegations."
Orie accused Rioja of playing politics in the office.
"I also note that members of my staff received various e-mails from you criticizing Republican legislators and making derogatory remarks about Republicans," Orie wrote.
Rioja declined to comment. She resigned her volunteer position before the investigation began.
"Campaign work never happened when I was there; I want to make that very clear," said former intern Richard Maleski, 24, a third-year law student at Washington and Lee University.
PART II BELOW....
LET THE EVIDENCE BE SEEN BY THE GRAND JURY AND LET THE GRAND JURY FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE.....THE FRANK FINA MOTTO!
PART II
CONTINUED FROM ABOVE
ET TU JANE JOAN?
For the Saint Mary Law School Graduates it means...'And you, Jane and Joan?'
"There was a good deal of constituent services, some of it mundane," said Maleski, who worked in the office from May to August 2005. "A lot of times we would travel to charity events on her behalf, or make some comments for her to a veterans group."
Logan Berman, 23, of Washington, D.C., worked in Orie's office in the spring and summer of 2006, the middle of Orie's re-election campaign for her four-year term.
Berman was shocked by the accusations against Orie. She said she and three fellow interns were kept busy answering phones and attending community events when Orie was elsewhere.
"I think she's a wonderful person, and I learned a lot in my small amount of time there," Berman said. "I've interned a lot of places where people don't even remember your name, but she always remembered mine."
Jerry Shuster, a political communications professor at the University of Pittsburgh, said he taught several former Orie interns. None complained of campaign irregularities, he said.
Two interns recently reported positive experiences, he said.
Corey Tolan, 25, of McCandless completed his nine-month internship in May, said his mother, Kathy Madeya. Tolan studied political science at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
"I know he had a good experience," she said. "We talked about the news stories about the accusations against her. We were both surprised by the news. He said he never did any campaign stuff."
LET THE EVIDENCE BE SEEN BY THE GRAND JURY AND LET THE GRAND JURY FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE.....THE FRANK FINA MOTTO!
"ALL POITICS IS A DIRTY BUSINESS"...THE TONY KRASTEK RAMALEY TRIAL CLOSING QUOTE.
"(SILENCE) THE TOM CORBETT COMMENTS SO FAR ON JANE ORIE INVESTIGATION?
BEAVER COUNTY TIMES ARTICLE ON GUILTY PLEAS AND COMMENTS:
GUILTY PLEAS
A list of defendants who pleaded guilty Wednesday and their crimes.
l Mike Manzo, a Monaca native and former chief of staff to former House Democratic leader Bill DeWeese: Three counts of theft, six counts of conflict of interest and one count of conspiracy. Agreed to forfeit his state pension.
l Scott Brubaker, former director of staffing and administration for House Democrats: Two counts of theft, one count of conflict of interest and one count of conspiracy. Agreed to forfeit his state pension.
l Jennifer Brubaker, former legislative research director for House Democrats and Scott’s Brubaker’s wife: Three counts of conflict of interest and one count of conspiracy.
l Jeff Foreman, formerly a leading lawyer for the House Democrats: Two counts of theft, one count of conflict of interest and one count of conspiracy. Agreed to forfeit his state pension.
l Earl Mosley, House Democrats’ former personnel director: Two counts conflict of interest and one count of conspiracy.
l Patrick Lavelle, former research analyst for House Democrats: One count of conflict of interest and one count of conspiracy.
l Rachel Manzo, former executive director of the House Democratic Policy Committee and Mike Manzo’s wife: One count of theft.
— The Associated Press
Comments
loyalty2 none, 01-07-10, 7:36 am
This is all just a buncha anti-union pro-big-busines s political hackery by the big shot Republican Tom Corbett. These low level soldiers might do a short stretch and get out early. But the People's champion will walk. When this trumped up case is done and over with, our man Mike Veon will be the one making up the list and going after the real crooks: the republican scabsters that are trying to bust unions all over Pennsylvania. When card check legislation passes, we'll see who runs the show. Solidarity forever. No contract, no work. That's the way it's gonna be again.
trueblue, 01-07-10, 7:56 am |
loyalty2none Amen
JUM, 01-07-10, 9:30 am
They should bust the unions...Please ,they have no place in this century.
I wonder if Mike has a tie to match his orange jumpsuit?
Anonymous said...
I wonder if Mike has a tie to match his orange jumpsuit?
January 7, 2010 10:25 AM
No more than Corbett's Orange own suit.
Mike Veon should wear the Tie Sean Ramaley had on when on Trial and the good people of Dauphin County saw that AG Corbett had no case he could prove.
I would remove the Ties from Corbett, Fina and Krastek once Veon is Acquitted, they may hang themselves by their sloppy runaway Grand Juries.
Mike Veon is going to go free an dcome back larger than Corbett ever stood up on a ladder.
Why isn't Todd Eachus on the witness list?
The OAG made some serious mistakes on leaving off some people on the Witness Lists, I won't say how for now, because I want Veon, Cott, Keefer and Rosepink-Peretta to be acquitted.
Yep Def some peeps surprisingly not on this list..
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