Citations:Nifong

English citations of Nifong

Verb: To make a self-serving, politically-motivated accusation or prosecution.

1. • 2006, Susan Filan, "Your Rebuttal," The Abrams Report, MSNBC, June 20, 2006:

     And Robert Jacobs from Glendale, Arizona, "A new word is about to become part of our lexicon and will be appearing in every dictionary in the world. Nifonged, a euphemism for inept and corrupt prosecutors. My client was Nifonged the other day in court. I hope I don`t get a Nifong prosecutor. This Nifonged prosecutor has ruined my life for his own ambitions. I'm being Nifonged for political correctness and politics."

   • 2006, "Lacrosse players 'Nifonged'," The Charlotte Observer, 28 December 2006, [1]:

     Now we can 'Nifong' someone when we want to trump up criminal charges based on flimsy evidence allegedly for political purposes.

   • 2007, Dave Highlands, "WE MUST NOT TOLERATE THIS CRUELTY TO ANIMALS," St. Petersburg Times, July 28, 2007:

     I should have expected Nifonging by liberal rags such as the Herald-Sun. I would have expected better from the Times.

   • 2007, Henry Jones, "Teacher Cleared of Having Sex with Students Sues School District," Hannity & Colmes, FOX News Network, August 27, 2007:

     We're not going away. We're going to seek justice. What happened to her, she was Nifonged. They just rushed to judgment without any notice of who her accusers were, what the accusations were. They fired her in a couple of days.

   • 2007, Ted Van Dyk, "NIFONG EXAMPLE RAISES GOOD QUESTIONS." Seattle Post-Intelligencer September 27, 2007:

     Imagine for a moment that a similar incident had taken place at a local university and that a prosecutor here had Nifonged.

   • 2007, Ralph Blumenthal, "Prosecutor in DeLay Case Says He Won’t Seek Re-election Next Year," The New York Times, December 15, 2007, [2]:

     “He never had any intention of finishing off his revenge on Tom DeLay and is scared to death of being Nifonged while still in office,” Ms. Flaherty said, a reference to Michael B. Nifong, the disgraced former prosecutor in the Duke University lacrosse team rape case that collapsed as groundless.

   • 2007, "Man freed from prison won't be tried again," The Associated Press, July 24, 2007, [3]:

     "After spending 10 long years in the state prison for a crime I did not commit, I do not have any animosities toward anyone," Dake said later, "although I feel I was 'Nifonged.'"

   • 2008, Michael Gaynor, "Mississippi Nifonging: Heroes, Obama Tie," The Conservative Voice, April 5, 2008, [4]:

     When I wrote "Nifonging in Mississippi: Mississippi Supreme Court, Right 11-Year Wrong NOW!," I did it because the Nifonging of attorney J. Keith Shelton had been despicable and the truth deserved to be publicized, but I did not mention the connection of the sickening story to the presidential election because I did not know of it.

   • 2008, Campaign poster, Friends for Freda Black, April 2008, [5]:

     Don't get "Nifonged" again!