Marie ragghianti biography

  • Marie Fajardo Ragghianti (born June 13, ) is an American parole board administrator, famous as the whistleblower who exposed Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton's "clemency for cash" scandal in Ragghianti grew up in Florida, where she was regarded as a beauty queen.
  • Marie Fajardo Ragghianti is an American parole board administrator, famous as the whistleblower who exposed Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton's "clemency for cash" scandal in Ragghianti grew up in Florida, where she was regarded as a beauty.
  • American whistleblower and prison reformer.

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    Marie Ragghianti

    American politician

    Marie Fajardo Ragghianti (born June 13, )[1] is an American parole board administrator, famous as the whistleblower who exposed TennesseeGovernorRay Blanton's "clemency for cash" scandal in

    Ragghianti grew up in Florida, where she was regarded as a beauty queen.[2] She married a boxer, but her husband became an alcoholic. Their son nearly died from a lung infection at the age of two.[3] They divorced, leaving Ragghianti with three young children.[2]

    In , at the age of 29, Ragghianti won a scholarship to Vanderbilt University,[3] and earned a Bachelor of Science in English Literature and Psychology (). She was active in the Vanderbilt Young Democrats Club and caught the attention of newly elected governor Blanton's legal counsel, T. Edward "Eddie" Sisk.[3] She was an extradition officer for the Tennessee Department of Correction (–76) and the chair of the Tennessee Board of Pardo

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    Marie ( film)

    film bygd Roger Donaldson

    Marie (also known as Marie: A True Story) fryst vatten a American biographical rulle starring Sissy Spacek as Marie Ragghianti, former head of the Tennessee Board of Pardons and Paroles, who was removed from office in after refusing to release prisoners on whose behalf bribes had been paid to aides to GovernorRay Blanton. Ragghianti, a single mother and political appointee, was hounded for refusal to cooperate with the culture of corruption with which she found herself confronted. Two of Blanton's aides faced prosecution for their roles in the scandal. The film was based on the book Marie: A True Story by Peter Maas.

    The film was directed bygd Roger Donaldson and written by John Briley. It also stars Jeff Daniels, Keith Szarabajka, Morgan Freeman, Fred Thompson, Lisa Banes, John Cullum, Graham Beckel, and Macon McCalman.

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    It's the mid s. Marie Ragghianti left an abusive marriage and moved back home with her mother Virginia in

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    TCM Diary: Marie: A True Story and A World Apart

    Marie: A True Story (Roger Donaldson, )

    When Sissy Spacek starred in the title role of Roger Donaldson’s Marie: A True Story, in , Roger Ebert shrewdly pegged it as another entry in a new genre about the “young woman with pluck, who struggles against the system and makes a stand for what she believes in.” He listed, as examples, Sally Field in Norma Rae and Places in the Heart, Jessica Lange in Country, and Spacek herself in (among others) Coal Miner’s Daughter and The River.

    Three years later, cinematographer Chris Menges, who shot Marie: A True Story, made his directorial debut in A World Apart, a Cannes Grand Prix winner starring Barbara Hershey as a formidable South African anti-apartheid activist who forfeits domestic happiness for her righteous cause. The genre reached its populist apotheosis 15 years later, with Julia Roberts as brassy, self-made environmental crusader Erin Brockovich. Spacek, though, a

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