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On the day of Aaron Swartz’s funeral – seriously – the husband of US Attorney Carmen Ortiz, Tom Dolan, decided to go on Twitter and attack public statements made by the Swartz family.
It’s incredible they don’t blame Aaron completely? Stay classy Dolan. And what exactly were they supposed to say about a plea deal that fell through?
Dolan continued to embarrass himself.
Six months in federal prison, no biggie. Perhaps Mr. Dolan can do six months to demonstrate how much of a breeze it is. Much more compelling than Twitter snark.
Yes Mr. Dolan, a plea means a deal to receive less than the indictment. It does not mean the indictment goes away. So when the plea deal collapsed the 35 years remained. You claim to have worked for IBM do you not understand basic logic?
Clearly Mr. Dolan is in need of further instruction.
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Tom Dolan should be in prison.
In other words, the publicity has gotten under Carmen Ortiz’ skin and life at home is a little tense, as she realizes her ambitions, if not career, are toast. Good.
My only fear is that Obama, out of spite, will nominate her for SCOTUS.
Not sure if it’s accurate, but in the Twitter storm that followed, someone said the 6-month plea deal also contained a $1 million dollar fine.
Er, correct me if I’m wrong, but a plea would have required admission of guilt on all counts in order to get “six months probation”. *Guilty* is not the right word to describe what Aaron did.
6 months in federal prison for downloading too many free articles. No.
And if Mr. Dolan thinks it’s such a benign experience he should go to federal prison for 6 months, you know, take some time to relax.
Can someone tell me why Mr. Dolan seemed to know so much about the case? And what is the spouse of a USA doing on Twitter attacking people like that? Any one check to see if he still has a job at IBM?
I thought her name was ‘Ortiz’.. or is the hispanic touch just a political thing and MR Dolan doesn’t have the same oomph with the administration? Either way, he picked up the wrong briefcase on his way out the door.
and how many years did they harass and threaten him? over downloading too many free files.
torture people and you’re a leader. crash an economy and you deserve to have all your victims bail you out. download too many free files, have the government hound you to death. that’s justice in the US.
Some people actually have principles. Thomas Drake was offered no jail if he pleaded guilty to ‘unauthorized use of a government computer’. Seeing as the prosecution had started out with the death penalty for treason, that looked like a pretty good deal. But Drake declined, saying thatt he was authoirzed to use the computer in question and that he would not say he wasn’t to please the persecutors. He eventually pleaded guilty to ‘exceeding’ authorized use of a a government computer and he agreed that he had actually done that. And he pleaded.
Six months in prison and 13 felony convictions for acts of principle seems excessive. Not to mention repugnant to the civilized conscience.
springtime for obama and for profit prisons
wintertime for the rest of US
It was very unwise for Dolan to comment at all. Certainly won’t do her career any good and perhaps not his either. Dolan has no right to make life worse for grieving parents.
Whatever happened to “innocent until proven guilty”?
Such an old fashioned idea. s/
Is he authorized by DoJ to speak to the details of the plea offer, or the case in general? Has his wife unwisely shared too much with him, with which he’s gone public using his Twats?
Interesting question.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I have read that the plea deal was spiked by MIT, not Mr. Swartz. So yes, Mrs. Assface’s husband, there was a deal. It was dropped by your wife.
They are both prime examples of the one percenters who occupy their position by the lack of any humanity or shame.
Do they have the audacity to piously sit in a house of worship ?
OT re #J16 –
I just want her to be fired – never to be heard of again.
Hang down your head, Tom Dolan
Hang down your head and cry.
Hang down your head, Tom Dolan,
Your tweets show you’ll go bye bye
Let us resolve to stop quoting the Constitution, it is very passe’.
What an incredible scum bag. It is bad enough his wives ambitiions surely added to the will not to live. Yet on the day of the funeral, the guy can’t keep his foul mouth shut.
Heh, that goes on the back of my truck. Thanks,if you don’t mind?
Where does this all fit in the topic of “bullying”?
Executive discretion.
Why hooooow nice. Tom Dolan, husband of the USAttorney currently be questioned about overreach in this case decides to take it upon himself to Twat out all kinda shit dissing someone who committed suicide due to undue harrassment over downloading free files. What a _________ You fill in the blank.
Typical attitude displayed today by our so-called economic “betters” who feel free to diss anyone they perceive to be “in their way,” most esp IF that
peonguilty until never declared innocent crookcitizen happens to be both a member of the dirty 99% AND someone who had the nerve to “question” their “betters.”Bullying? Yeah: you betcha! Why not? It’s the DONE thing these days. Just ask anyone on the fascist propoganda wurlitzer, who, no doubt, get specialized training in how to bully for maximum effect.
Dolan’s apparently blithe “instruction” for Swartz to just suck it up and go to the Fed Pen for a mere six months reminds me of when Sean Hannity said waterboarding was no big and pranced his “big balls” around saying he’d go get waterboarded, himself, just to prove how it wasn’t torture. Then cowardly Hannity never did it. I do hafta tip my hat to Keith Olbermann who continuously reminded viewers how many many many days it had been since Hannity’s braggadocio “commitment” that was NEVER fulfilled.
Typical fascist running dog of this empire: all bark but no balls.
Asshole. Hope his wife gets canned stat, but as someone else suggested, probably Barry Zero’ll put her on the Supremes where Diaz, no doubt, would fit right in with the rest of the grifting fascists there.
Eh? THAT antiquated “notion” flew out the window a looooooooong time ago. Wake up lil Susie.
Remember when Obomba *publically* declared Bradley Manning GUILTY before Manning had even been charged?
Got it?
Jeez. I assumed the probation part. So it would have been $1 Million *and* six months in prison. Whadda great deal./s
Luv to see the back of your truck.
All dolan proved was that they are “his and her” jerks.
:)
I don’t do guns. But THIS nonsense is making me re-think my position.
That’s exactly what I wondered….Marital privilege….doesn’t mean you spill everything about your professional pursuits, decisions, content, etc.
I hope we get an answer….most professional couples recognize there are things that do not need to be discussed. Esp not for one of the couple to be the mouthpiece for the other.
We need to escalate our response to this tragic prosecutorial over-reach. Call your Congresscritters, write to your local paper, complain loudly and directly to DOJ, sign the petitions, etc. Unless we go way beyond our normal preaching to the choir this whole story will fade away very fast! I’ll be on local radio this Monday…
As a couple they do seem to share the same squalid ethics. I will no be boycotting IBM products. I wonder if the prosecutor wife violated some much-ignored ethical guidelines of the wrongfully named Department of Justice. It is a department of Justice without ethics, morals, or justice. a festering sore left over from the Bush administration. This is a Karl Rove production.
Aaron had money to be taken away. Just think of all the people who are being maliciously charged and ” enhanced ” who don’t have the werewithall, the money. These politically motivated ” witchhunts ” happen every day in America. This instance was writ large. Most of these injustices are writ small. ” The poor have occasionally rebelled against being governed badly, the rich have rebelled insistently against being governed at all. ” End of story.