MO Rep on Prof Licensing Committee Sentenced to Federal Prison

[James H. Bushart]

This man was part of the Missouri Professional Registration and Licensing Committee that, last year, voted to approve the house bill paid for by the Missouri Association of Realtors and presented, as usual, by Mike Parson, the lobbyist's best friend.

Read this and you will understand more about the system.

T.D. El-Amin gets ready for prison next week



Kevin Killeen Reporting
kakilleen@cbs.com

ST. LOUIS (KMOX Radio) -- Former State Representative T. D. El-Amin finds out when and where he will go to prison, after being sentenced last month for bribery.

El-Amin had requested to serve his time at the federal prison close to St. Louis -- Memphis, Tennessee or Marion, Illinois.



Now, he has now learned that he is being assigned to the federal prison ten hours from home -- on Maxwell Airforce Base in Montgomery, Alabama. He's scheduled to begin serving his 18 month sentence "sometime next week," he told KMOX.



El-Amin declined to say more today than where and when he's going, promising to have "much more to say" next Monday about his trial, the FBI, the court system and going to prison.


The 39-year old father of five pleaded guilty September to soliciting a bribe, after he was caught in an FBI sting operation taking $2,100 from a north St. Louis gas station owner who needed help with a series of nagging city inspections. What El-Amin didn't know was the gas station owner was working with the feds and their meetings being recorded.

The place where he's going is described on the Department of Justice website as " a minimum security facility that houses male offenders."
The DOJ website says minimum security institutions "have dormitory housing, a relatively low staff-to-inmate ratio, and limited or no perimeter fencing. These institutions are work- and program-oriented; and many are located adjacent to larger institutions or on military bases, where inmates help serve the labor needs of the larger institution or base."


A 2006 report in the Alabama Press Register on life at the Maxwell Airforce Base prison characterized it as a "club fed" facility that features tennis courts, soccer and softball fields, bocce ball and a wood working shop.



Non-violent and white collar federal inmates work there maintaining the base grounds or work at the laundry facility.



Most minimum security federal prison camps have air conditioned dormitories , with two inmates occupying an 8 by 9 foot room, that includes bunk beds, a desk and locker for each inmate.



The two other prison sites El-Amin had requested both have minimum security satellite facilities. Marion is 122 miles from St. Louis.

Memphis is 242 miles from St. Louis. And Montgomery will be 611 miles from home and family visits.

[Gary Farnsworth]

The President can create jobs by creating more of these detectives and investigators. Just think it will take an investigator to investigate the person who is being investigated for the investigation into the investigation for corruption, instigated by the person who issued rights to the investigation. When the investigation gets investigated, the investigator will then be investigated by the investigation. Attorneys will step in with their own investigation with their own investigators. Thousands of investigative jobs will be created.

(I think I got that right).

[Dan Bowers, CMI]

I remember testifying before the Committee he was on several times in the past few years, BUT if memory serves me correctly he was absent at most of the meetings.