Wrongfully imprisoned Congressman
comes home to warm welcome after spending seven years in federal jail
Michael Collins Piper lists one of the ten reasons James Traficant was
imprisoned as:
Coming
to the defense of Ukraine-born Cleveland autoworker John
Demjanjuk, who was falsely charged by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
and the Justice Department‘s Office of Special Investigations of being
a “Nazi war criminal”—only to be cleared, ironically, by an Israeli
court. (Ultimately, with Traficant sidelined in his own federal trial,
they went after Demjanjuk again on “new” charges and restarted the
process of seeking to deport the beleaguered old man, who is now in
Germany facing trial on 29,000 counts of being an accessory to the
alleged murder of European Jews.)