BRUMFIELD – Where in the world is Timothy Balducci??
Anyway, you can imagine that the feds knew better than to put Balducci and the others together, since Balducci was the guy who flipped on them all within about 5 seconds of the feds telling him they had him by the yang, you know, back in the fall of 2007.
So, Balducci was put in storage somewhere else. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons site says he’s “in transit.”
But, as I thought all along, he’s cooling his heels in the Monroe County Jail, near his family, which had to move out of New Albany after the scandal ruined their lives there.
“Yep, he’s still here,” the jail administrator told me this afternoon, noting Balducci will remain there, a guest of the U.S. Government, “until they tell me otherwise.”
Meanwhile, we’re all watching the U.S. District Court to see when those anticipated motions for “downward departure” (leniency or early release) surface from their sealed state.
You gotta figure Balducci’s expecting one for his outstanding performance. He gave the case to the feds.
You gotta figure Scruggs is expecting one for his solo serenade per DeLaughter and perhaps P.L. Blake.
You gotta figure Joey Langston’s expecting one for admitting guilt to a bribery conspiracy that no one had even breathed over, Scruggs II, just a few weeks after Scruggs et al were indicted. I’ve been assured that Langston’s cooperation hit the All Star level.
What Patterson may have contributed is speculation, but we’ll see if he’s among the chosen if all this unfolds soon.
Patsy Brumfield
9/2/9
