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• News from the Marion Prison

  —Missouri Political News Service

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  We Can’t Wait to Have Senator Felon Jeff Smith Come Stay With Us!!! Word has it that the Marion Federal Prison community is eagerly anticipating the newest addition to their collection of Democrat legislators. Former Democrat Representative Cecil Ray Davis (TN) will be joined by disgraced Democrat State Senator turned hypocrite [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:54am EST
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• Smith disagrees with prison sentence: I'm no threat to society

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  In an interview with the Washington University newspaper, former Sen. Jeff Smith, D-St. Louis, who was sentenced last week to one year and one day in federal prison for his part in a coverup of violations of election laws, says things are going to be [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:21am EST
  

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• Judge unseals letters supporting Jeff Smith

  —The Turner Report

  A federal judge unsealed letters asking for leniency for former Sen. Jeff Smith, D-St. Louis Friday.
  
  The letters, which might have had some sway over the judge since Smith did not receive the maximum sentence for obstruction, included appeals from colleagues on both sides of the aisle and from [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:15am EST
  

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• Government asks court to unseal letters of support for Jeff Smith

  —The Turner Report

  Acting U. S. Attorney Michael Reap filed a motion in U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri today asking that letters of support for former Sen Jeff Smith, D-St. Louis, who was sentenced to one year and one day in prison Tuesday, be made public:
  
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:15pm EST
  

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• What difference can a day make? For Smith, a shorter prison stay

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  Smith leaves court on Tuesday

  ST. LOUIS — Those who heard U.S. District Court Judge Carol E. Jackson sentence Jeff Smith this week may have thought she was sending a message to the former state senator by ordering him to serve a year…

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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:32am EST
  by Jake Wagman

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• Jeff Smith's Fifteen Minutes Are Over

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  You broke campaign finance laws, wanted to blame a former campaign staffer who had committed suicide, lied to the FBI and now you're going to jail for a year. What do you do? If you're Jeff Smith, you do a media interview.

  
  Jeff Smith making [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:36am EST
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• Keaveny sworn-in to fill Jeff Smith’s State Senate seat

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  Keaveny is sworn-in by Supreme Court Judge Michael Wolff

  A day after his successor was sentenced to prison, St. Louis Democrat Joe Keaveny was sworn-in to officially become Missouri’s Fourth District State Senator.

  Keaveny, previously a banking executive, won the seat in a special…

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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:44pm EST
  by Jake Wagman

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• Koster, Montee, Slay, Schoemehl wrote letters backing Jeff Smith

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  JEFFERSON CITY — One of the political guessing games played yesterday in relation to the sentencing of former state Sen. Jeff Smith of St. Louis involved trying to figure out who wrote letters backing Smith.

  (See Jake Wagman’s story here and my column…

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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:55am EST
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• Smith: I squandered what I loved the most

  —The Turner Report

  In a note of contrition before he was sentenced to one year and one day in prison Tuesday, former Sen. Jeff Smith, D-St Louis, said his desire to do anything he could to win his Congressional race against Russ Carnahan, brought about his downfall.
  
  
  "I was raised" [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:16am EST
  

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• Smith's treasurer placed on probation

  —The Turner Report

  While former Sen. Jeff Smith, D-St. Louis, received one year and one day in prison following a one hour, 10 minute court session Tuesday, his co-defendants will not serve any prison time.
  
  As noted in The Turner Report Tuesday, former Rep. Steve Brown, D-St. Louis, was placed on probation [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:45am EST
  

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• Two former state Democratic lawmakers sentenced for felonies

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  Two former state Democratic lawmakers were sentenced today after pleading guilty to federal conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges back in Sept.
  
  The charges stem from a cover-up in former State Sen. Jeff Smith's (D) 2004 congressional campaign against Congressman Russ Carnahan (D). [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:45pm EST
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• Jeff Smith sentenced

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  As the legislative session ground to its end last spring, Jeff Smith threatened to filibuster the entire budget in the State Senate if Republicans insisted on cutting funds for tax credits for the rehabbing of historic buildings. He prevailed in protecting the program, particularly the smaller projects that make up [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:58pm EST
  

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• Watch: FBI says Smith, Brown’s crimes were spinning lies

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  ST. LOUIS– Maxwell D. Marker, assistant special agent in charge for the FBI in St. Louis, reacts to the verdicts against former state lawmakers Jeff Smith and Steve Brown.

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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:36pm EST
  by Jake Wagman

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• Jeff Smith sentenced to one year and one day in prison: Steve Brown gets probation

  —The Turner Report

  A federal judge sentenced former Sen. Jeff Smith, D-St. Louis to one year and one day in jail this morning. He will also have to pay a $50,000 fine. The judge rejected Smith's attempt to get off with community service and house arrest.
  
  Former Rep. Steve Brown, D-St. [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:11pm EST
  

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• UPDATE: Smith gets one year in prison; Brown gets probation

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  Former state Sen. Jeff Smith, left, arrives at court this morning. By Elie Gardner, P-D.

  Former state Sen. Jeff Smith received  one year plus a day in federal prison while former Rep. Steve [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:19am EST
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• Smith, Brown sentencing now underway

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  Sentencing of former Missouri state Sen. Jeff Smith and former state Rep. Steve Brown has begun in front of U.S. District Judge Carol E. Jackson. Smith was greeted at the courthouse by Democratic state Rep. Jake Zimmerman, D-Olivette.

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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:20am EST
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• Smith, Brown sentencing less than three hours away

  —The Turner Report

  
  
  Former Sen. Jeff Smith, D-St. Louis, will be sentenced in less than three hours for his role in obstructing a federal investigation into monkey business during Smith's unsuccessful 2006 Congressional primary campaign against Russ Carnahan.
  
  Also scheduled to be sentenced are [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:05am EST
  

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• Smith, Brown to learn their punishment at sentencing today

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  Smith after pleading guilty in August

  ST. LOUIS — Former state lawmakers Jeff Smith and Steve Brown will be sentenced today for lying to federal officials in an effort to cover-up their involvement in an anonymous political attack.

  Smith, who represented St. Louis [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:38am EST
  by Jake Wagman

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• Jeff Smith responds to government's response to his sentencing memorandum

  —The Turner Report

  The battle of the sealed responses continues on the eve of the sentencing of former Sen. Jeff Smith, D-St Louis, former Rep. Steve Brown, D-St. Louis, and Smith's former campaign treasurer Nick Adams, on federal election crimes.
  
  Smith's attorneys filed a sealed response this morning to the government's response [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:34am EST
  

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• Government responds to attempts by Smith, Brown and Adams to reduce sentences

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  In sealed documents filed Friday with the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, the government opposed efforts by former Sen. Jeff Smith, D-St. Louis, former Rep. Steve Brown, D-St. Louis, and co-defendant Nick Adams to challenge the recommendations in their presentencing reports.
  
  The three man, [...]

  Posted: November 14, 2009, 8:28am EST
  

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• Government responds to Jeff Smith's objection to pre-sentence report

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  With only five days left before sentencing, the government filed a memorandum today responding to the objections of former Sen. Jeff Smith, D-St. Louis to the pre-sentence investigation. As usual, the documents were sealed.
  
  Smith pleaded guilty Aug. 25 to federal election conspiracy charges stemming from his unsuccessful 2006 [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:09pm EST
  

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• Jeff Smith's former treasurer also angling for lighter sentence

  —The Turner Report

  With only eight days to go before his sentencing on felony election conspiracy charges, Nick Adams, who served as treasurer for Jeff Smith's 2006 Congressional campaign, is doing his best to trim the length of his sentence.
  
  Adams' lawyer filed a sealed sentencing memorandum in U. S. District Court [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:44pm EST
  

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• Sealed documents: Jeff Smith jockeying for lighter sentence

  —The Turner Report

  
  Disgraced former Sen. Jeff Smith is jockeying for less time when he is sentenced Tuesday, Nov. 17, but none of us are going to be able to tell just what reasoning Smith and his lawyer are using in their efforts.
  
  Following the same formula applied [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:52pm EST
  

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• Jeff Smith’s Refusal to Come Clean Costs Taxpayers $220,000

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    ‘We have to wonder, though, if Smith will try to use his status as an early endorser of Obama – he endorsed in February – to try to get the Justice Department to go easy on him.” The election to replace Senator Jeff Smith, who has pled guilty to charges stemming [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:12am EST
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• Quote of the Day: “I Did Know Artie Very Well, And He Would Have Been the First to Say Blame Me”

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  “Artie would totally want us to throw him under the bus here.” - Jeff Smith Does anyone else think that our quote of the day is kind of sick? Here’s the entire quote from a comment left on this post about dirtbag ex state senator Jeff Smith’s unhappiness with his pre [...]

  Posted: November 03, 2009, 12:42pm EST
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• Ex Sen. Jeff Smith Objects to Pre-sentence Investigation Report

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  “Artie would totally want us to throw him under the bus here.” According to The Turner Report, dirtbag ex state senator Jeff Smith (“Can you put it on Arnie? If you can just put it on Arnie.”) is unhappy with his pre sentencing report: In a sealed document filed today in U. [...]

  Posted: October 28, 2009, 8:32am EDT
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• Jeff Smith objects to presentence investigation report

  —The Turner Report

  
  With just a little more than three weeks before his sentencing on federal election conspiracy charges, former Sen. Jeff Smith, D-St. Louis, is not liking the direction things are going.
  
  In a sealed document filed today in U. S. District Court for the Eastern District [...]

  Posted: October 27, 2009, 8:33pm EDT
  

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• Smith empties campaign fund, refunds $81,000 in contributions

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  Smith

  ST. LOUIS — Former state Sen. Jeff Smith is out of public office, but that didn’t keep him from submitting a thick campaign finance report this quarter.

  The reason: Smith, who resigned in August after admitting to a political cover up, emptied virtually…

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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 8:57am EDT
  by Jake Wagman

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• Kander releases information on proposed ethics legislation

  —The Turner Report

  
  With the recent arrests and guilty pleas to felonies by Rep. Steve Brown, D-St. Louis; Rep. Talibdin El-Amin- D. St. Louis; and Sen. Jeff Smith, D-St. Louis, as well as major revelations in a series of Kansas City Star articles today about the influence of money [...]

  Posted: October 18, 2009, 9:50am EDT
  

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• Nixon returns contributions from disgraced St. Louis Democrats

  —The Turner Report

  Gov. Jay Nixon returned campaign contributions from former Sen. Jeff Smith, D-St. Louis, and former Rep. Steve Brown, D-St. Louis Aug. 25, according to his disclosure report filed Thursday with the Missouri Ethics Commission.
  
  Brown had donated $1,275, while Smith had contributed $600. [...]

  Posted: October 17, 2009, 12:06am EDT
  

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