Disgraced former Congressman Jim Traficant was recently freed from federal prison after serving seven years of hard time for corruption and tax evasion.
He surprised many people who haven't followed his case by claiming in subsequent interviews that he had been framed by the "Israel lobby".
Now, according to a column he has published on the neo-fascist, Holocaust denial website American Free Press, Traficant is planning to travel to Germany to testify on behalf of John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk has been indicted for war crimes committed while allegedly serving as a guard at the Sobibor concentration camp during World War II; the trial is set for later this month.
Traficant also announced that he would be writing a regular column for American Free Press. (Read Traficant's AFP column
here. Read a Youngstown, Ohio
Business Journal report on this
here; and
Editor and Publisher,
here.)