So What Exactly Happens when a Senator is Indicted?

[mod mom]

Does he actually get arrested? Is he served papers and given instructions? What happens?

[bdamomma]

1. ON C SPAN NOW

http://www.cspan.org/Watch/C-SPAN2_wm.aspx

[mod mom]

4. Thanks. Gifts from VECCO worth greater than $250,000

[mod mom]

5. Early charges, investigation since 2004. Already has 7 convictions from this investigation.

[MiniMe]

20. 7 convictions or 7 indictments?

I think its 7 indictments. Those are felony charges, I don't know if you can run for Senator with felony indictments. I think the ethics committee surely would have taken care of it if a conviction had taken place.

[mod mom]

24. both. 7 Indictments today but 7 convictions on others related to this case.

[MiniMe]

26. OK, I get it now

Duh. I read it that Stevens already had 7 convictions. I didn't realize that you were talking about other people. Thanks for explaining. :hi:

[Skink]

9. If he is a Republican he get's a pardon.

[mod mom]

11. and a posh job as a lobbyist.

:mad:

[MiniMe]

21. I don't think so in this case

They know better than to protect a dirty politician. It will be just like the way they let Duke Cunningham go down.

[BlooInBloo]

2. The same thing that happens when any other rich white person is indicted for white-collar crime....

Very little, in the short term.

[FSogol]

3. He explains that he has a wide stance and then....

Oh, you mean Stevens. You see, indictment is a series of tubes and when the tubes get clogged,

[BOSSHOG]

6. If its a republican he gets a standing ovation from his colleagues

[napi21]

7. He will be allowed to turn himself in. Matt Friederick ffrom DOJ

answered that question during the interview.

[mod mom]

10. Sorry missed that part thanks to kids. Does this mean he posts bail and then released until trial?

[napi21]

12. I don't know anything about bail. As far as I know, all it means is

that he will NOT be cuffed and frog marched! I THINK bail doesn't come into play until he attends a hearing and a judge will make that decision.

[mod mom]

14. Unlike Governor Don Siegelman.

[napi21]

18. AFAIK Gov. Siegelman was cuffed at his hearing, not right after an indictment.

I know what you're saying though. The Gov. was carted off from the courthouse and not offered bail. I'll be very surprised if that happens to Stevens for a number of reasons.

[trashcanistanista]

8. Yes, it is only a matter of where he turns himself in.

If he doesn't, they go and get him!

[Hamlette]

13. he loses his leadership positions, if convicted Senate can expel him

or censure him. But the indictment itself results in loss of leadership positions.

Lott a few years back tried to change that when he was indicted. Or was it Delay? I get those crooks mixed up. But they didn't change it, or changed it back once the dems were in charge.

[sinkingfeeling]

15. He will immediately lose his 'ranking member' status on the Senate Commerce, Science, and

Transportation Committee.

[napi21]

19. I'd love to be the proverbial fly on the wall now! I bet I'd hear words

many thought Stevens didn't even KNOW!

[burythehatchet]

16. Major spike in shark attacks?

:shrug:

[spanone]

17. he becomes vice president?

[CPschem]

22. terror alert?

[Wizard777]

23. He'll have to be impeached. But then we'll lose the election, the sun will go black, and the moon

will turn blood red. Then the four horsemen are unleashed.

[spanone]

25. a california earthquake occurs

[butterfly77]

27. Special treatment...