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Contents 1 Second (?) person to run for federal office from prison 2 Infobox 3 Artwork 4 RICO Acquittal 5 Education 6 John Demjanjuk cites 7 A Criminal?

[edit] Second (?) person to run for federal office from prison

I don't think it's accurate to say that Mr. Traficant was the second person ever to run for federal office while in prison. One example that comes to mind is a fellow named J. John Gordon who ran for president in 1976 and eventually filed a lawsuit claiming that the election had been effectively stolen from him: Gordon v. Secretary of State of New Jersey, 460 F. Supp. 1026 (D. N.J. 1978), republished at http://members.aol.com/schwenkler/wcc/gordon.htm An argument could be made that Gordon didn't really run for president, but the better view is probably that he was a candidate. Anyway, I'm willing to bet there have been quite a few others as well. For example, Leonard Peltier has run for President from prison (I believe he was nominated by the Peace & Freedom Party in 2004, but I think---we need to check whether---he was running for federal office before then, at least as the subject of a "Draft Peltier" effort, perhaps mostly as a write-in candidate), and I'm imagining (not clearly enough to call it remembering) that Mumia (while on Death Row) might even have been on the ballot (for Vice-President?) in some states.

Eugene Debs is of course the most famous presidential candidate to run while in prison, but I'm not sure he was the FIRST federal candidate to run from prison.

I believe that Lyndon LaRouche was running for president in 1992 during the time he was in prison, but this should also be checked.160.253.0.248 16:57, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

David Duke ran for Congress from prison, also.

[edit] Infobox

The James Traficant infobox seems to be screwed up. I've tried fixing it, to no avail. Micahbrwn 01:21, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Artwork

We need a picture of this guy's prison artwork, it's actually pretty good. 141.213.141.25 15:36, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Most likely he retains the copyright and I'm not sure posting it here would qualify as fair use. Jonathunder 17:14, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RICO Acquittal

I'm not sure about this, but didn't Giacomo DiNorscio successfully defend himself from RICO charges?

[edit] Education

In what subject did Traficant receive his graduate degree? Fishhead64 21:19, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] John Demjanjuk cites

Material on John_Demjanjuk needs to be sourced - at present it is significantly in conflict with the accout given at John_Demjanjuk. If you have cites for this section pleaser also correct John_Demjanjuk. SmithBlue 07:07, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A Criminal?

I have a problem with Jim Traficant being included under "WikiProject Criminal Biography". Jim Traficant is NOT a criminal, he has done so many good things for our part of Ohio over the years. He is a political prisoner, and more information about his unfair trial before Judge Leslie Brooks Wells and hearings before Congress should be posted in the article. Steve LaTourette was instrumental in this too, getting rid of Traficant was a political decsion and should be treated as such. Windsorwindsor1 (talk) 18:48, 3 March 2008 (UTC)