{"id":59381,"date":"2024-06-02T22:49:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T02:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=59381"},"modified":"2024-06-03T19:06:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T23:06:59","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-by-david-sperry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2024\/06\/letter-to-the-editor-by-david-sperry\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor: Amira D. Fox &amp; Alvin Bragg two peas in a pod"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By David Sperry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This past we saw a dishonest New York prosecutor convict Donald Trump on bogus criminal charges.&nbsp; The case involved an allegation of bookkeeping errors, regarding payments to Trump\u2019s former lawyer Michael Cohen.&nbsp; It was not illegal to pay Stormy Daniel\u2019s hush money, Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) are used every day and are totally and completely legal.&nbsp;&nbsp; Crooked Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg twisted and warped the legal process to charge Trump with a truly convoluted felony.&nbsp; &nbsp;Bragg\u2019s liberal Democrat predecessor refused to prosecute the case.&nbsp; The Federal Elections Commission officially ruled there was no crime.&nbsp; The Bragg conviction of Donald Trump was a bastardization of justice and the criminal process.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"274\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Letter-To-The-Editor.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36514\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, we have a similar case closer to home. In 2018, local State Attorney Amira D. Fox, then the Chief Deputy State Attorney, used her office to prosecute her political opponent on a trumped-up petty crime. &nbsp;Her underdog primary opponent, former prosecutor Chris Crowley, held a fundraiser in Buckingham.&nbsp; Two supporters held a raffle and handed Crowley a $600 donation.&nbsp; Crowley took the money but checked with the Florida Division elections before even putting it into his campaign account.&nbsp; When the elections division said raffle funds were not permitted, Crowley returned the money and that should have been the end of the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amira Fox and her mentor, the infamous former State Attorney Steve Russell, used the prosecutor\u2019s office to have Crowley arrested for two felony charges, all over a s $600 raffle, even after the fact the money had been returned.&nbsp;&nbsp; This was another bastardization of justice and the criminal process.&nbsp; Fortunately, the charges against Crowley were later dropped, but the political damage Fox wanted was executed. &nbsp;She got her headline of Crowley being arrested.&nbsp; Amira D. &nbsp;Fox had her opponent arrested over a $600 raffle, petty politics at its worst.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When prosecutors use their offices to prosecute political opponents, they destroy basic concepts of fairness and justice.&nbsp; The United States becomes a two-bit banana republic.&nbsp;&nbsp; We need to go back to being a nation of laws and not a nation of politically charged prosecutors using their offices to go after their political opponents on fake process charges.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amira Fox and Alvin Bragg are two birds of a feather.&nbsp; They both abuse their connections and power to falsely prosecute their political adversaries.&nbsp; They both violate their oath of office and public trust.&nbsp; The people of Lee County and New York both deserve better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Sperry This past we saw a dishonest New York prosecutor convict Donald Trump on bogus criminal charges.&nbsp; The case involved an allegation of bookkeeping errors, regarding payments to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":36514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[2699],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59388,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59381\/revisions\/59388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}