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Title: Neighbor accused of breaking Rand Paul’s ribs will plead guilty to felony assault (on a member of congress, resulting in personal injury)
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NY Daily News
URL Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/news ... ngressmember-article-1.3767448
Published: Jan 20, 2018
Author: Jessica Chia
Post Date: 2018-01-20 09:14:19 by Hondo68
Keywords: senator stacking brush, Indiana federal prosecutors, signed a plea agreement
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Comments: 3
A Kentucky man accused fracturing six of Sen. Rand Paul’s ribs in November will plead guilty to assaulting a member of Congress — a crime carrying a maximum sentence of 10 years. Dr. Rene A. Boucher, 58, of Bowling Green, Ky., was charged with the felony on Friday for allegedly attacking his neighbor of 17 years over an ongoing yardwork dispute. Boucher, who admitted the assault, signed a plea agreement, according to a press release from Indiana federal prosecutors. Federal prosecutors will ask a judge to impose a sentence of 21 months in prison, court documents showed. Paul was wearing headphones while mowing his lawn when Boucher grew angry at the sight of the 55-year-old senator stacking brush near his property, the Justice Department said in a statement. Boucher — like Paul, a physician — “had enough” of the Republican lawmaker's perceived slights and ran onto his property to tackle him, prosecutors say. Paul suffered six fractured ribs and contracted pneumonia in the course of his treatment. The attack raised questions about whether the libertarian-leaning Republican lawmaker was targeted for political reasons. But Boucher told investigators that was not the case. Boucher’s attorney, Matthew Baker, said the pair had a long-standing dispute over property maintenance. He previously said the dispute was sparked over something “most people would find trivial.” “Dr. Boucher is a very meticulous sort of fellow,” Baker said. “He continues to be a very regretful and very remorseful. I know that he wishes that it had never happened.” “Assaulting a member of Congress is an offense we take very seriously,” said U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler. Poster Comment: Antifa yard Nazi, triggered by a brush stack? He'll probably be sentenced to picking up heroin needles in the park for a few hours. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana was assigned the case following the recusal of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky where the offense is alleged to have been committed. ..... More at link above ^^^ 
Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of Indiana
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
He should have gotten at least 5 years. This is a slap on the wrist IMO.
#2. To: Tooconservative (#1)
"I've never known Kelly and Rand to complain about anything, and I'm not aware of anyone else making complaints about them," Stivers said. As a matter of full disclosure, Alicia Stivers’ husband is U.S. District Judge Greg Stivers, who was nominated to the federal bench by Senator Paul. Alicia Stivers says Paul called her husband right after the attack, said he feared Boucher might return, and that he had called police. wkms.org/post/friend-rand...tack-was-property-related This explains the recusal of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky. So the case ended up in the Southern District of Indiana.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Federal prosecutors will ask a judge to impose a sentence of 21 months in prison, court documents showed.
Replies to Comment # 1. Alicia Stivers says she was the first person to see Paul after the attack. She says the senator told her that Boucher mentioned that he had been trying to sell his house for ten years and that Paul’s trees were in the way. Stivers is a former board member of the Homeowners Association at Rivergreen, the gated community where Senator Paul lives. She says she doesn’t know of any history of property disputes between Paul and Boucher.
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