Target: TRAFICANT: The Untold Story

by Michael Collins Piper

The outrageous inside story of how the Justice Department, the Israel Lobby, and the American mass media conspired to set up and take down Ohio's outspoken maverick Congressman Jim Traficant, and a special appendix describing the Justice Department's campaign to destroy Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, resulting in Dwyer's shocking public suicide.

233 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

American political writer, talk radio host and regular contributor to the American Free Press.

Piper is a staunch opponent of Israel and their neoconservative supporters in America.

Piper also has doubts about the motives behind the Martin Luther King and JFK assassination. He claims that the mossad and the FBI were involved with those assassinations.

Critics like the ADL claim that Piper is a anti-semetic conspiracy theorist and islamophile.

Reviews

[Oliver Bateman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hardly a literary masterpiece, but this surprisingly cogent AFP publication does a good (albeit repetitive) job of defending Traficant against the trumped-up charges that cost him his congressional seat and saw him tossed into federal prison. The selection of “Jimbo’s” one-minute speeches in the appendix makes for some fine filler — they should’ve included more just to pad the book — and the unrelated reporting on the very public suicide of Budd Dwyer (making a fairly strong case for Dwyer’s innocence re the bribery charge that prompted his on-camera death) was actually quite interesting. Recommended if you’re someone who wants to get down in these hardy rust belt weeds

[John Geddes · Rating 4 out of 5]

“[my] trial is a microcosm of what’s happening in America.” - Jim Traficant as quoted on p.82

This book and My First Days in the White House are the only books by Michael Collins Piper that are not online in pdf. While I understand why 'First Days' is not, considering that it’s a fiction book, a very different genre from the rest of Piper’s books, I can not understand why that’s the case for this book, considering that it is probably the most clear-cut account of lawfare I have ever read.
Jim Traficant’s 2001 conviction has got to be the most blatant case of lawfare I have ever read about. The Deep State spent about 20 years trying to find crimes to pin on Traficant and all they could get was 10 felony counts of the most ridiculous kind. The counts included:
- Having members of his staff help scrape old paint off his boathouse.
- Helping a construction company from his district, owned by friends of his, get government contracts in exchange for the “bribe” of pouring concrete on his father’s farm. (It wasn’t even poured correctly)
- Taking $2,500 as a kickback from his employee, Allen Sinclair, that actually went into one of Sinclair’s five bank account and never went to Traficant
- Racketeering, the legal equivalent of “the crime of doing crimes” (yes, the legal definition of Racketeering is that thin)

Despite the fact that they no doubt had hours of Traficant on tape, they couldn’t produce any because the air conditioner in Traficant was too loud (yes, really)

The main book is very short, at 103 pages, with two appendixes making the book 163 pages in total. The first appendix is a selection of Traficant’s farsighted speeches in congress. The second appendix is a reprinting of Michael Collins Piper’s 1987 journalism in the spotlight exposing the lies that led to Budd Dwyer’s death, saving it from the memory hole.

[Edward Hale · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book to read. James Traficant from Youngstown, Ohio voiced what was taking place and he may have actually been ahead of his time. With his famous 1 minute speech’s and his closing remark, “Beam me up Mr. Speaker”