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  • Megyn Kelly Tells Candidate She Lost Senate Primary On National Television

    Megyn Kelly was prepared to interview Annette Bosworth about her campaign on the night of the GOP primary in South Dakota. Instead, the news anchor had to break some bad news to Bosworth on national television.

    Media Bistro reports that Kelly had Bosworth on her Fox News show – the Kelly File – to discuss the candidate’s GOP primary campaign. The primary race was mired in sexual slurs and hate speech all directed at Bosworth and it was definitely something worth talking about. Kelly got word that Bosworth had lost her primary race against former South Dakota governor Mike Rounds right before the segment and opened with a question about how she felt.

    At this moment, you would expect Bosworth to have a canned speech planned in which she gracefully admits defeat while saying she looks forward to Rounds’ campaign in the general election. Instead, the news was so fresh that she didn’t even know she had lost the race. She learned that she had lost on national television in front of millions of viewers. In what was surely a surprise for the GOP candidate, she could only say what probably any of us would say in such an incredibly awkward situation:

    “That’s news to me. I didn’t know that. I found out on national television.”

    You can check out the clip below:

    It would have been a pretty good week if Bosworth just had to deal with a little bit of awkwardness of national television. Instead, the now former GOP candidate turned herself into officials today after a warrant was issued for her arrest. According to the Argus Leader, she faces perjury charges in relation to election law. In total, she’s been charged with six counts of perjury and six counts of filing a false or forged document.

    Bosworth isn’t the only primary candidate under suspicion as independent Clayton Walker was barred from running in the primary due to perjury allegations. He has not yet been arrested.

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  • Shayanna Jenkins Removed Box Day After Murder

    Shayanna Jenkins, the fiancé of former New England Patriot football star Aaron Hernandez, has admitted that she removed a box from their home on the day following the death of Odin Lloyd, which happened on June 17th.

    Assistant District Attorney Patrick Bomberg said that Shayanna Jenkins was not forthcoming with information about the location of the box.

    “She was asked what she did to the item that Mr. Hernandez instructed her to get rid of; she repeatedly told the grand jury that she couldn’t remember, she didn’t know, she’d thrown it in a dumpster, and she couldn’t tell anybody where it was,” Attorney Bomberg said during his request to have Shayanna jailed and placed on a $5,000 bond.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D73ElSXm4w

    Janice Bassil, the defense attorney for Shayanna Jenkins, considered the situation differently and attempted to explain her view.

    “It seems to me that this is overreaching. The indictment is overreaching. The statement by Mr. Bomberg is overreaching. And the request for bail is overreaching,” Janice Bassil said.

    Judge Thomas F. McGuire Jr. was of a similar mind with Bassil and denied the prosecution’s request for bail; however, he did order that Shayanna be present at the next hearing due to take place on November 9th.

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    At the hearing on Tuesday, Shayanna Jenkins pleaded not guilty to the charge of perjury.

    Many questions remain. Investigators noted that Shayanna Jenkins had described Odin Lloyd, who was dating her sister, as being involved in using and selling drugs. District Attorney Bomberg alluded that her description could have had underpinnings of defamation of character.

    “The only rational reason she possibly have had to have said that about a man who, it’s important to note, was dating her sister, and about whom purportedly she had just learned had been killed, and the body recovered in North Attleboro, was that there was some motive for her to suggest that he had engaged in untoward conduct, but in fact, that was never true,” Bomberg said.

    Janice Bassil explained that her client’s relationship with fiancé Aaron Hernandez “in many ways had elements of what I would refer to as don’t ask don’t tell.”

    Officials are still searching for the .45 caliber gun.

    [Images Via YouTube]

  • Roger Clemens Acquitted Of Six Counts Of Perjury

    Roger Clemens has been acquitted today perjury by a federal court. Clemens was accused of lying to Congress during hearings concerning steroid use in Major League Baseball.

    Clemens was charged with two counts of perjury, three counts of making false statements, and one count of obstructing Congress. Clemens was one of several players called to testify during Congress’s investigations into the use of performance enhancing drugs by Major League Baseball players four years ago. He emphatically denied doing so.

    Clemens spent 23 years as a starting pitcher for four teams. He began his career in 1984 with the Boston Red Sox. In 1997 he left to play for the Toronto Blue Jays despite Boston management’s efforts to keep him. From 1999-2003 he played for the New York Yankees. He then spent two seasons with the Houston Astros before coming back to New York for his final season in 2007. His career win-loss record is 354-184. He is a seven-time Cy Young award winner, appeared in eleven All Star games, and won two World Series with the Yankees.

    This trial was his second on these charges. The first ended abruptly in a mistrial when prosecutors showed evidence to the jury that had been excluded by the judge as prejudicial. This second trial lasted ten weeks. Jurors deliberated for 10 hours before reaching their verdict.