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| Star photo of Durham's arrival at the federal courthouse today |
UPDATE: An interesting sidebar noted in Swiatek's updated story in this morning's Star. "I'm surprised with the order," J. Richard Kiefer, an attorney for Obsidian Enterprises, one of Durham's companies, said in court. Kiefer is a partner at Bingham-McHale, the law firm at which U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett was also a partner before recently becoming the state's top federal prosecutor. The firm has been assisting Durham's business with the civil lawsuit the bankruptcy trustee has been pursuing to recover assets for the bilked investors of Fair Finance. Interesting that he would be participating in the criminal case as well.
UPDATE: The Star reports Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson turned down a request by Durham's attorneys to free him from the halfway house to which Magistrate Judge Kennard Foster ordered him to stay for the next 7 days until he provides a more complete financial disclosure form to the court. She also moved his trial back from May of this year to June, 2012. The prosecution anticipates the trial will last four weeks.
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Not that I'm upset Tim Durham is living in a halfway house, but why would a judge send him there if he was out on bail? I thought out on bail means you are free until trial.
His bail was subject to home detention.
So the judge decided where Durham's "home" was going to be for the next week?
At least until he satisfies the judge's request concerning his financial disclosure statement.
Financial disclosure should mean account statements showing where the money (equities, munis, tbills, etc) IS--not some stupid voodoo accounting worksheet like the one he has been providing for the last ten years that was full of lies.
Same kind of documentation you have to give when going through a divorce. Pretty basic. Let's see what the judge does.
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