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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Eupher on January 10, 2011, 03:48:56 PM
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Mods, I'm not sure if this qualifies as Breaking News or not, so if not, you'll move it.
AP, so link only:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110110/ap_on_re_us/us_delay_trial
I don't pay attention to the DUmp, but I imagine they're beside themselves with glee.
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Mods, I'm not sure if this qualifies as Breaking News or not, so if not, you'll move it.
AP, so link only:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110110/ap_on_re_us/us_delay_trial
I don't pay attention to the DUmp, but I imagine they're beside themselves with glee.
Quite the contrary, the DUmmies are not happy. 1. He's still free, pending appeal. 2. 3 years is not long enough .
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Meanwhile career criminals like Rangel get a pass.
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Meanwhile career criminals like Rangel get a pass.
No shit, right?
That sack of shit deserves to have his ass bent over a cart and serviced by the Mexican Mafia, ala "American Me." :censored:
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Tom Delay's crime is not the worst. I have seen politicians do worse. He may not see a prison cell.
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Whatever happened to that Democrat with a freezer full of washed money?
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I don't pay attention to the DUmp, but I imagine they're beside themselves with glee.
No... they're still too wrapped up in their "Blame Palin/Tea Party/Fox News" blood-orgy.
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Whatever happened to that Democrat with a freezer full of washed money?
Well after getting tossed out of congress, finally, the law was able to catch up with him and he has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in November of 2009. Unfortunately he is still free on appeal.
Former Rep. William Jefferson was sentenced Friday to serve 13 years in prison for what the lead prosecutor described as "the most extensive and pervasive pattern of corruption in the history of Congress."
While the sentence by federal Judge T.S. Ellis III fell well short of the 27 to 33 years recommended by the government, it is by the far the stiffest jail term ever imposed on a member or former member of Congress for crimes committed while in office.
Jefferson, 62, was found guilty Aug. 6 on 11 charges, including soliciting bribes, depriving citizens of honest service, money laundering and using his office as a racketeering enterprise.
He was acquitted of five other charges in a case that famously featured the revelation that he had hidden $90,000 in the freezer of his home, marked bills from the FBI that prosecutors said was going to be used as a bribe.
The judge also ordered Jefferson to forfeit the $470,653.47 the jury had determined was funneled to shell companies under his family's control through his bribe schemes.
Jefferson owes $5 million in legal fees and has filed for bankruptcy.
December 06, 2010
Jefferson, a New Orleans Democrat, filed his appellate brief last month, arguing that the trial judge, T.S. Ellis III, made errors in his jury instructions and that convictions dealing with honest serves wire fraud should be struck down because of a recent Supreme Court ruling putting new limits on prosecutors' use of the statute.
In a brief filed with the 4th Circuit last week, the Justice Department said that in order to respond to the Jefferson appeal it must conduct an in-depth review of the trial record, which involved more than 1,000 exhibits, 8,000 pages of transcripts, 50 witnesses and more than 700 docket entries.
I just wonder who is doing the pro bono work on his behalf... and why.
His brother Mose and several of his posse have also been convicted. His brother reported to prison back in March to start a 10 year stretch.
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Whatever happened to that Democrat with a freezer full of washed money?
You mean Willian Jefferson, democrat, Louisiana?
(http://photos.upi.com/slideshow/lbox/1e3ee159779af13fc24eacb7986826e9/WILLIAM-JEFFERSON-ARRAIGNED.jpg)
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Tom Delay's crime is not the worst. I have seen politicians do worse. He may not see a prison cell.
I hope you're right. He was one of our real stalwarts. Whatever small illegality he may have been party to, as noted above, it pales in comparison to what Rangel and so many other Dems have done. DeLay was the victim of a prosecutorial witchhunt.
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And good on Netanyahu for contributing to his character defense--good man, Bibi.
This SHOULD be overturned and it WAS politically motivated. There's simply no question of that at all. This is terrible injustice.
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What is the judges DU name that just seems unfair to me
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And good on Netanyahu for contributing to his character defense--good man, Bibi.
This SHOULD be overturned and it WAS politically motivated. There's simply no question of that at all. This is terrible injustice.
Ain't that the truth, little scumbag political hack.