Nbadan
09-25-2004, 06:52 AM
How can anyone still trust these grudge-holders?
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Clackamas County prosecutor has been suspended for two weeks without pay because he used office equipment to prepare his affidavit as one of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, District Attorney John Foote said Friday.
Alfred French, a senior deputy district attorney, used the computer in his office to receive and print a draft of the affidavit on July 21. On the same day, he asked a legal secretary in the office to notarize the document, Foote said in a statement.
The Swift Boat veterans accused Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry of exaggerating his Vietnam war record to win medals. The charges have not been substantiated.
In a Swift Boat ad, French said "I served with John Kerry. ... He is lying about his record." In the sworn affidavit, he said Kerry "wildly exaggerated and lied about his record in Vietnam."
French subsequently acknowledged he relied on the accounts of his friends and did not witness Kerry in combat. That admission led to pickets outside his office and complaints of unethical conduct to the state bar.
Oregon Live (http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-7/109607275411600.xml&storylist=orlocal)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Clackamas County prosecutor has been suspended for two weeks without pay because he used office equipment to prepare his affidavit as one of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, District Attorney John Foote said Friday.
Alfred French, a senior deputy district attorney, used the computer in his office to receive and print a draft of the affidavit on July 21. On the same day, he asked a legal secretary in the office to notarize the document, Foote said in a statement.
The Swift Boat veterans accused Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry of exaggerating his Vietnam war record to win medals. The charges have not been substantiated.
In a Swift Boat ad, French said "I served with John Kerry. ... He is lying about his record." In the sworn affidavit, he said Kerry "wildly exaggerated and lied about his record in Vietnam."
French subsequently acknowledged he relied on the accounts of his friends and did not witness Kerry in combat. That admission led to pickets outside his office and complaints of unethical conduct to the state bar.
Oregon Live (http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-7/109607275411600.xml&storylist=orlocal)