Found Guilty But eBook Joe Kotvas
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Welcome to the true story of the department of injustice. In 1972, Joe Kotvas had it all as a former police officer and a rising star in Tampa politics. But thirteen years later, a short visit by a corrupt colleague to the office of Hillsborough county commissioner Joe Kotvas’s office in 1983 would change and shake the very core of local government right up to Washington, DC. The colleague was advised to plant a bribe at the behest of an ambitious US attorney known to the community as Mad Dog (Robert) Merkle, a man eager to make his way to larger assignments in his political career.
Found Guilty, But… is a firsthand account of how innocent people and public servants were set up and framed on bribery and corruption charges as part of a witch hunt designed to put dozens of prominent people who did business with the government in prison.
This is the complete story of how a beloved politician’s career was cut short by an unscrupulous prosecutor intent on putting as many people in jail as possible. It is a personal story about Kotvas’s battle to get adequate legal representation, his trials, his five years in federal prison, and his return to a community that had once venerated him as an attentive government official and later painted him as an outcast in disgrace.
Experience what happened from start to finish—how the criminal justice system designed to protect the innocent came to be his worst nightmare. See exactly how the wrong people can end up losing chunks of their lives and reputations to powerful prosecutors who care little except to make names for themselves. But best of all, learn how Joe Kotvas weaves a grim depiction of the anguish and despair of helplessness while emerging at the end of it all as a productive member of the community with his head held high.
Found Guilty But eBook Joe Kotvas
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Found Guilty But eBook Joe Kotvas Reviews
I love this book! It shows how innocent people can get accused of something they didn't do and pay the awful consequences of hateful people. It's sad that we can't trust people in government.
A recently published book with explosive local impact opens old wounds in Tampa, Florida Politics, by revisiting the convictions three decades ago of a trio of Hillsborough County Commissioners. The author, Joe Kotvas, was one of these politicians.
Found Guilty, But... is his second self published book. The first was a well re-constructed account of Japanese occupation on US soil in Alaska during World War II. His latest is a personal retelling of trial, conviction, and five years in Federal Prison on what he asserts are bogus corruption charges. It was, in fact, while in prison that he was assigned library duty that led to his research for book one. The jury might be said to still be out on book two. Was he a victim of over zealous prosecution and an endless flow of lies from a co-defendant turned state's witness? The volume does provide astonishing details from news reports, official records, and his personal journal about the case that transfixed the public, including voters who elected him to office. But in the end, the reader is left to draw his or her own conclusions about guilt or innocence.
The real value from the story are the numerous and sometimes jaw-dropping revelations about imprisonment, prosecution and judicial practices. One of these is a startling first hand account about how prisoners are shuffled around when transporting between facilities. His experience was during his 2nd trial held during his incarceration. Short trips to and from from his Alabama cell to appear in court in Tampa, that should have taken only hours, each took weeks instead, boarding buses and planes crisscrossing the entire country. Temporary overnight housing during these excursions was provided courtesy the national prison system. There is no plausible explanation given for such an erratic means of getting from one place on a map to another.
Besides the look inside prison walls and court room drama, the former Tampa police officer - turned public official - turned convicted felon, offers plenty of food for thought to chew on about his trials, like the missing segments of recordings used as evidence of bribe taking. He cites the improbability of five different recordings, presumably offered as proof of his crime, all failing at the same point in the tapes, leading to transcript interpretations provided by the prosecution as to what is said. He also lays out a pretty good scenario for believing an over-aggressive prosecutor looking for political gain cooked up the evidence against him, though that premise never came up convincingly in court itself. Another more subtle, but genuinely revelatory element in the story, provides an inside look at the thin line between political campaign financial contributions and risk for corruption with political paybacks to donors. In fact, this key point, while not laid out by either the defense or the prosecution, can be gleaned between the pages while pondering how the author ever found himself in such dire circumstances in the first place.
Its a good read for any civics student, local history buff, and citizen seeking to understand the complexities and sometimes tragic outcomes of power politics.
And interesting read in the life of Joe Kotvas. What he and his family went through and what it costs them in the end. It really shows how corrupt our system is or was. So sad.
It gives a clear presentation on our prisons system and an inside view at power hungry prosecutors and their impact on everyday folks' lives.
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