Jackson Jambalaya

Looks like Pickering called for some backup after he told the Judge he would comply. Funny thing is the records were sitting outside the courthouse in a rental truck and instead of unloading them, they drove them to Jackson. Pickering is not for the people as he stated. He is looking out for his "dear friends".

Judge Schloegel should hold Pickering and his attorney with contempt of court. Let them sit in jail a couple of days! This whole thing smells and Pickering is trying to coverup for his friends and fundraisers! In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to see another fundraiser coming up again on the coast - not at Joe Cloyd's, but at Scott Walker's house next door.

What was the smell of a coverup has become a stench. Once it all comes out Pickering, at the minimum, is finished.

Stacey Pickering needs to be sent Packering back to the free state of Jones County. I feel certain he can return to one of his old jobs doing whatever it is he did as a "businessman" that he listed as occupation. He no longer needs to be at the table claiming to represent the interest of the people of our state. He is the type of politician that has to have a judge tell him when to do the right thing. And even then he is tries to slither out of the court's order.

I don't think some people are not picking up what's being laid down. It's not Pickering that doesn't want to hand over the documents. His job is done. It's the FEDS. Now the judge still can hold Pickering in contempt and lock him up. In fact she should of had that truck with the records seized when it was available. This is the FEDS game now. They play by different rules, and I don't mean legal rules. Now the judge has to decide if she wants to play hard ball.

Pickering has been a tremendous disappointment. He talked such a great game as a candidate, but he has only gone after easy targets since taking office and even then apparently only when it was convenient.

Follow the yellow brick road: Judge orders records turned over immediately from Pickering near the end of last week. Records are in a truck parked outside of courthouse door. Truck leaves courthouse door, returns to Jackson to wherever Pickering or his subordinates told them to take it. Sun herald and Judge then realize that they have NO records turned over to them. Judge calls Pickering and his "people". Judge, Sun Herlad, whoever, told that can't have records anymore because, all of a sudden, right out of the blue, FEDS have demanded the records the very next morning, why, only hours away from the actual call between Pickering and his "people" are talking on phone to judge, her "people" etc.

This is Alice in Wonderland on steroids folks.

So sad that she held court in a U-haul truck.

this is an easy one to call. Judge needs to do what Chancery Judges do everyday in Mississippi when finding that someone didn't obey an order, like paying child support. She puts Pickering in jail until his contempt is purged by getting the records back as ordered. the question is, does she have the stones to do it?

I feel sorry for Pickering. Many of his fellow Republicans are probably about to be criminally charged. They didn't cover how to do this when he got his accounting degree. Probably not when he got his MBA either. It's a lot easier to lock up little people.

All that Republican talk about how government doesn't work, and here Pickering has the proof, except

Hello Hello!!!! Chopper Read here. I'm down here on the coast talking to Chancery Court Judge Jennifer Schloegel. She just ordered State Auditor Pickering to hand over some documents and he said he couldn't. Now the judge doesn't know what to do. I'll tell you what to do judge. Hardin' the Fuck Up.

Surely you realize that Pickering does not have an accounting degree nor an MBA. It's like you expect the State Auditor to have anything that would remotely resemble accounting experience. C'mon.

Didn't the FEDS intervene in the Dr. Arnold Smith case, too? Who really torched Abraham's legal offices? And we are told that Smith is in indefinite dention and undergoing undergoing mental evaluation. As anonymous said, the FEDS don't always play by the legal rules. Former Ohio Congressman James Traficant could write a book on that subject. Chancery Judge Chet Dillard has already written a book on the subject of extra-legal tactics conducted by the US Justice Department.

Stacey Pickering has found a way to hand off the ball to the FEDS who never seem to answer to anyone. He probably thinks he has accomplished keeping the records from public view and I guess for a time he has. I just wonder why? If you remember when the Sunherald first asked for copies of the records the DMR agreed to give them copies of all requested documents at some ridiculous price per page. When they were question about the inflated price they had a very lame reason about how many people would be needed and yada,yada,yada. For some reason at some point the AG attorneys, including Runnels, made the claim that the records would not be given to the Sunherald. Must really be something in the records that they do not want revealed. Could it be the contract that the Runnel's family has/had with the DMR? Anything is possible at this point.

About an hour ago the CL reported that 'sources close to the investigation' have told them that nine person would be indicted shortly.

I'd heard several days ago they were coming down next week but had no confirmation.