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This letter is from Judy White,
the wife of Gary White, the Republican Jefferson County (Alabama)
Commissioner who was sent to prison after he refused to perjure himself
despite pressure from prosecutors p to say as he was directed in Grand
Jury testimony against former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.
Mr. White refused to participate in a wrongful prosecution. Federal
prosecutors made their case without his help and then prosecuted White for bribery and conspiracy; they began delivering
subpoenas the very day after he refused to comply with their demands. He
was convicted and sentenced to ten years in federal prison. After
being directed to bring all prescription medications, when he arrived at
federal prison on September 29, White told his wife that his medications
were immediately confiscated. Earlier today, he reported that he
is still without medication, despite daily requests. Mrs. White has called
and wrote prison officials warning them of the dire consequences
and begging them to provide the prescribed medications, all to no avail.
After contacting members of their delegation, the House and Senate
Judiciary Committee, the Bureau of Prisons, Office of Inspector General,
and the Regional Office with oversight of the prison, Judy White is
now appealing directly to President Obama to right this wrong.
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October 10, 2010
VIA E-MAIL: president@whitehouse.gov
FAX NO. (202) 456-2461
The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500
Re: URGENT Request for Emergency Assistance
Dear Mr. President:
My
husband, Gary White (age 63, with no prior criminal record, former elected
official), is one of the innocent victims of a selective, vindictive political
prosecution at the hands of corrupt Bush-administration officials; as a result,
he became an inmate at the federal prison camp in Edgefield, South Carolina on
Wednesday, September 29, 2010, twelve days ago. His innocence, however, is irrelevant to the matter about
which I am pleading for your help.
(And as an aside, both of us had been life-long active Republicans, but
after becoming enlightened to the politicization of the DOJ and their corrupt
actions, particularly in Alabama, I voted in the Democratic primary in 2008 for
the first time, and even put an "O" on my car where my "W" had been.)
I
am writing to you to implore your urgent intervention in hopes of saving Gary's
life, which, along with his health, is in grave jeopardy as the result of
prison officials withholding critical medical treatment. Gary was ordered to
self-surrender. When he was
contacted by a U.S. Marshal and told the location of the prison, the marshal
also told him to call the prison and find out what he was to bring with
him. Gary did so, on
speaker-phone; I witnessed the conversation. The prison official told Gary to bring all his prescription
medications with him, which he did.
(In fact, although Gary has been recognized and designated as indigent
by the Court, the day before he went to prison we refilled two of his
prescriptions to insure against any lapses in medication. Some of his medications carry warnings
of adverse consequences of missing doses and/or sudden cessation; some are in
demand as street drugs.) Upon
entering prison, Gary's medications were taken from him and he has been denied and
deprived of them since.
Specifically, the last time he was able to take the medications
prescribed for his serious health problems was on Wednesday morning, prior to
becoming a prisoner and the responsibility of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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