>>"Hugh Mann" <hu...@newguy.com> wrote in message
>>news:hnr35401sf6@drn.newsguy.com...
>>> is the county seat of Baldwin County Georgia. It (the county) has a budget
>>> that
>>> is equal to Ben's salary. For a county it is a poor county. A major trail
>>> in
>>> that county would (could) be a boon for the local coffers. Media, high
>>> priced
>>> lawyers, defendants dropping money for lodging and such for three weeks
>>> could
>>> make a nice increase in cash flows. So I can see the local District
>>> Attorney
>>> taking some serious pressure to come to a point that they could get Ben
>>> into a
>>> court room, regardless of the nature of the charge or the likelihood that
>>> those
>>> charges would stick.

>>That's an interesting perspective.  I never think about the economic impact
>>of something like this, but I could totally see this playing out as you
>>hypothesize.

>This is one of the dumbest things I have read in a long time.

>Are you implying that Ben may have been setup as to help raise tax
>revenue for the county?  Was the woman that was
>assaulted in on this as well?  It's all about money to a lot of folks
>here.  In fact, the only reason Ben isn't in
>jail now is that he is spending 10s of thousands on his sleeze ball
>attorney whose claim to fame is getting guilty
>people with money off.

>That is quite the conspiracy theory.