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From mark@idmedia.com Tue T ~ 3 07:32:58 1997 <br /> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 03:~. 07 -0500 <br /> From: Mark Keesee <mark@idmedia.com> <br /> To: BZ Evans/Twain <purefire@interpac.net> <br /> Subject: Updates & Action Alert! <br /> Monday, June 2, 1997 <br /> The "train deaths" <br /> http://www.idmedia.com/ttd.htm <br /> Updates: <br /> * Arkansas Democrat-Gazette <br /> Witness recalls Harmon offer that <br /> $10,000, night in bed would free her <br /> husband - 6/31/97 <br /> * Dan Harmon's Trial <br /> Days 1-4 <br /> <br /> ACTION ALERT <br /> My task force officers and I fought the dirty <br /> <br /> political machine in Arkansas as hard we could <br /> in 1990, but it was a loosing battle. Ewen though <br /> a leaked federal memo named Dan Harmon the target <br /> of a federal drug and corruption investigation, the <br /> <br /> media supported Harmon for district prosecutor. And <br /> even though a federal grand jury was unanimously <br /> ready to indict Harmon, U.S. Attorney Chuck Banks <br /> cleared him. I was personally discredited and <br /> <br /> professionally destroyed, and Harmon inherited my <br /> task force when he became prosecutor. <br /> He set up his office as an extortion and drug ring. <br /> <br /> An FBI agent told me they "have known about Harmon <br /> for years but are not going to do anything about it." <br /> However, by 1995, Harmon's criminal behavior had become <br /> <br /> blatant and he got careless. His now ex-wife, Holly <br /> Duvall, got caught outside Harmon's jurisdiction with <br /> cocaine packages from the district's evidence locker. <br /> The local paper ran a story, and the feds were forced <br /> to make a big show. <br /> <br /> A year and a half later, Harmon was indicted on <br /> racketeering charges, an appearance that something <br /> significant was happening, but that changed by the <br /> end of the first week of Harmon's trial. I've not <br /> been in Arkansas but have talked daily with others <br /> who have watched the trail, including Linda Ives. <br /> The reports are frustrating. The government's case is <br /> based primarily on indicted witnesses who have been <br /> given leniency in exchange for their testimony - a <br /> built-in defense for Harmon. This was absolutely <br /> unnecessary. The indictment could have gone back <br /> ten years (to 1987) and included ALL the witnesses <br /> provided to the 1990 grand jury. Those witnesses <br /> included an attorney, a secretary, two of Harmon's <br /> ex-girlfriends, another ex-wife, and at least two <br /> friends. Not one of them were indicted for anything, <br /> and each had various testimony about Harmon's illegal <br /> drug activity, yet the government chose to ignore them. <br /> There is no excuse for them having a weak case against <br /> <br />