Vince Macchiavelli: Let’s Do Luchko
AS TOLD BY OUR LEGAL CORRESPONDENT, J. CONOR CORCORAN, ESQ.: With its case coming to a close, the Feds were saving one of their best witnesses for last: Leonard Luchko, a former Senate staffer and Fumo devotee who, subsequent to the FBI’s investigation of Senator Fumo, began destroying records and various communications in an effort to protect Der Furher. Emails, documents, and sundried items of severe culpability simply disappeared into the ether – like ethics on the banks of the Susquehanna.
Uncle Sam caught wind of this, and put the squeeze on Luchko for his own criminal activity in that regard, compulsing a guilty plea (and, assumedly, favorable sentencing) in exchange for Luchko’s agreement to testify against the Vince of Darkness, presumably this week.
And then, suddenly, Judge Buckwalter ordered a recess in the trial.
According to the Legal Intelligencer, it appears that Luchko has been emailing with Fumo, and other witnesses, and leaving blog comments via a nom de plume.
Heynow! If you only read one Fumo Trial article this week — and let’s face, you’re only going to read one — make it this one. After the jump, Corcoran details what happens when the craven discover social media. Like you don’t already know.
There’s no information on WHAT Luchko was emailing to Fumo and others, nor the content of the correspondence, nor where he was blogging. And so while one can only speculate that his tremendously stupid behavior concerned matters immediately pending before the Court, one is left with the unshakable impression that Fumo’s crowd is the gang that couldn’t shoot straight, a veritable band of bucketmouths.
Emails are precisely what got these dopey bollocks into hot water in the first place. Why is it that government drones are so eternally feckless when it comes to simple matters that normal folks with functioning ethics take for granted? Don’t spend other people’s money, extortion is a major no-no (even on behalf of non-profits, perhaps especially on behalf of non-profits), and for the love of Christ – rule number 1 in the modern era – emails and blog postings are as secure as a priest at a preschool party!
Lawyers are a jumpy lot, particularly on trial. According to the Legal, the US attorney learned of the emails on Friday, and confessed to the court it would affect the government’s case. Luchko may be pulled from testifying because his credibility is, according to the Feds, at risk.
I say to the Feds, full speed ahead, and don’t spare the horses. And Fumo’s lawyers should distance themselves from this like John McCain from the Republican party. Nothing good can come from this association.
Sometimes it helps to put a hostile witness on the stand. Luchko’s testimony would expose the spindly cobwebs of political corruption surrounding Fumo and his ilk, which, incredibly, marches on. With a prosecution still pending, they are continuing to jive amongst themselves in such a fashion that betrays a certain – well, one hesitates to identify it as “culture,” as the behavior is void of any benevolence or altruism. It smacks, undoubtedly, of an avaricious and parochial naivete, so particularly Philadelphian, and it underscores (and, more importantly, reinforces) the criminally nefarious character of the Fumocrats. The brothers and sisters are really doin’ it to themselves.
They never learn, and yet – AND YET! They continue to engage in the same self-destructive behavior! Hell, it destroys our coffers, our government, and our culture! And Fumo led the troops in this regard for some 30 years! And these people are true blue Democrats! It’s raining so much horseshit in this town, it makes a fella wanna vote for Noam Chomsky.
This is our legacy, Philadelphia. Where have you gone, Michael A. Nutter? A city turns its lonely eyes to you.
Here at Philebrity, we are no strangers to reaching for the telephone in a cold sweat, fingers trembling in fear, punching in a few numbers and asking as soon as someone answers, asking “Fuck! Are we gonna get sued for this?” Always, on the end of the other line is one Conor Corcoran, Esq., our resident go-to guy for all things scary and legal. Read more of his missives to Philebrity here.
