Kennedy Gunman Denied Parole Again
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 3rd, 2011 5:40 am by HL
Kennedy Gunman Denied Parole Again
Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of killing Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, was denied parole for the 14th time, the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Sirhan, who assassinated Mr. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in 1968, had originally been sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted when the State Supreme Court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional.”
Senate Investigators Interview Coburn About Ensign
Senate ethics investigators have interviewed Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) about his friend Sen. John Ensign’s (R-NV) ongoing scandal involving an affair with the wife of a former top aide, “the latest sign that the Senate ethics inquiry into the Nevada Republican is intensifying,” Politico reports.
“It is unclear precisely what Coburn told Senate investigators and whether the information could further implicate Ensign, but sources say the scope of the ethics committee’s investigation into the Nevada Republican is widening and that more information that could be harmful to him could emerge just as Ensign gears up to run for another term in 2012, a race Democrats privately hope he continues to wage. Coburn lived with Ensign at a Capitol Hill home, known as the C Street house, run by a Christian fellowship during the period of Ensign’s extramarital affair.”
Late last year, the Justice Department ended its own inquiry that could have landed the Nevada senator in prison.
