Yet another update on #ThiefJudgeBrendaWeaver - a federal grand jury investigation of the case is under way

I wrote previously in several blog posts, here, here, here, here and here, about the outrageous story coming from the State of Georgia, Fannin County, where a group of judges and prosecutors targeted a publisher, Mark Thomason and his attorney, Russell Stookey, for seeking through public records and through a lawsuit, a verification whether:

1) court transcripts were altered, as compared with audio tapes of a court proceedings, to take out of the transcript mentioning of an "N-word" by the judge, #JudgeRogerBradley - who since resigned; and
2) whether judges in question - the racist judge Roger Bradley and the Chief Circuit Judge Brenda Weaver, who is also the Chairperson of the State Judicial Qualifications Commission - authorized payment of $17,000 out of the taxpayer-funded court operated account to a private law firm representing a private individual seeking to quash the lawsuit that sought access to that audio tape.

I wrote that publisher Mark Thomason and his attorney Russel Stookey were arrested, charged with felonies, and thrown in jail for making a public records request about copies of documents from the court operating accounts showing the illegal checks.

I wrote that the charges against Mark Thomason and attorney Russel Stookey were dropped "at this time", but that the local establishment continues to dig under Mark Thomason and is trying to concoct yet another set of criminal charges for him - all because he "pushed the cart all the way with the N-word", by the claim of the local pro-establishment journalist Brian Pritchard.

It is interesting to mention that the local state prosecutors did not seem to be interested in either Judge Roger Bradley committing grand larceny, a felony, by signing checks for thousands of dollars out of the court operating account to private law firms from the court operating accounts, or in Judge Brenda Weaver openly approving, in writing, such a grand theft.

Apparently, the local state prosecutors were too busy bending over backwards to accommodate Judge Weaver's request to charge Mark Thomason and attorney Stookey with felonies, and to allow Judge Weaver to tamper with witnesses ahead of the official criminal investigation and coach the prosecutor, her own former law clerk and her husband's former employee, as to how to prosecute Mark Thomason and attorney Stookey better.

Well, since the local prosecutors are too busy - and too timid - to do their jobs when judges are committing crimes on their watch, a federal grand jury is reportedly doing their job for them now.

Reportedly, Judge Weaver's puppet, the Appalachin District Attorney Alison Sosebee, was served with a federal grand jury subpoena to turn over her "investigative file" of the whole mess to the grand jury.

It is interesting whether Judge Weaver will be served with a similar subpoena of her own investigation that she reported in her letter to Alison Sosebee where she requested to drop charges against Mark Thomason and Russel Stookey "at this time".

A poetic detail about the whole mess is that Judge Weaver was given a 1st Amendment award in 2014 - of all things.

Here is the happy recipient of the award.

I wonder if the "trophy", the 1st Amendment award, screamed from Judge Weaver's wall when Judge Weaver was ordering her former law clerk to lock up Mark Thomason and attorney Russell Stookey and charge them with felonies for making an access to public records request.

I will continue to cover this story.

Stay tuned.