Gene Stipe To Prison Hospital
Former State Senator and convicted felon Gene Stipe has been ordered to report to the U.S. Medical Center for Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri for up to 30 days for a mental evaluation to determine Stipe’s competency.
And Stipe’s attorney Clark Brewster was apparently fit to be tied in spite of his own request for a health and mental evaluation for his client.
Of course Brewster did not want the evaluation done at a federal prison facility, as he’s trying his best to keep the 80-year-old convict as far away from a prison as possible. Brewster would have much preferred to keep Stipe close to McAlester and away from the feds.
Stipe was ordered to turn himself in to federal marshals by noon on September 6th for transport to the Missouri facility. Brewster in protesting the judge’s order said that Stipe has prostate cancer and is scheduled to begin chemotherapy six days later on September 12th.
U.S. District Judge Ronald White said that Stipe could receive any necessary treatments while undergoing evaluation at the federal medical facility.
Stipe has a history of using ‘medical excuses’ to avoid getting near the feds. He managed to delay sentencing for months after his guilty plea related to an election campaign scandal by using ‘medical excuses’, claiming he was unable to travel due to illness. However, during his supposed “illness” he managed to travel to Arkansas in order to get married.
Federal prosecutors are currently attempting to revoke Stipe’s probation on the federal charges alleging that Stipe orchestrated another straw donor scheme, shortly after he was sentenced on the last and that he has continued to associate with another convicted felon, Steve Covington, after a probation officer ordered both men to disassociate in October 2005.
If the prosecutors can convince the judge to revoke Stipe’s probation he would likely serve his sentence in none other than the Medical Center for Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.
Apparently Brewster is scared that once they get him there for the evaluation, they just may keep him there.
And in reality, that is right where he belongs…
