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Political Suicide Confidential to Despicable Me
Posted by Chicago Fan on Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:31 AM
Blago probably not going to Club Fed.
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Good to hear, thanks for the update. The length of his sentence certainly indicates to me that he deserves a more restricted confinement. IMO he's still getting off way too easy with a minimum security prison.
“They are spartan environments, they are isolated from the people you care most about. It’s a tough transition to make.”
Boo hoo hoo. What about the victims of these criminals? No one seems to think about the lives of those who were bilked or defrauded and what a rough transition it is for them when they've lost hundreds of thousands of dollars that they planned to retire on. The 4 former clients of my then accounting firm who were sent to prison lived cushy lives off of someone else's hard earned money and not 1 of them at their sentencing mentioned the real victims of their crime. All of them talked about how hard it had been on their families and how sorry they were their families had to suffer because of their actions.
And don't you just love that they call the federal prisons camp! Club Fed is so lax but it's a really tough transition. Oh, please, maybe they should have thought about doing time BEFORE they committed the crime.
“They are spartan environments, they are isolated from the people you care most about. It’s a tough transition to make.”
Boo hoo hoo. What about the victims of these criminals? No one seems to think about the lives of those who were bilked or defrauded and what a rough transition it is for them when they've lost hundreds of thousands of dollars that they planned to retire on. The 4 former clients of my then accounting firm who were sent to prison lived cushy lives off of someone else's hard earned money and not 1 of them at their sentencing mentioned the real victims of their crime. All of them talked about how hard it had been on their families and how sorry they were their families had to suffer because of their actions.
And don't you just love that they call the federal prisons camp! Club Fed is so lax but it's a really tough transition. Oh, please, maybe they should have thought about doing time BEFORE they committed the crime.
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keshmeshi, that part of my comment was specifically referring to the 4 men I know personally who went to federal prison for tax fraud, embezzlement, etc. I mentioned it in yesterday's post.
Fifty-Two-Eighty, I'm wondering why she stuck with him this long.
Fifty-Two-Eighty, I'm wondering why she stuck with him this long.
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CF,
I'm from Chicago, IL and I, too was somewhat surprised by the tough sentence. Even Gov. Quinn gave Blago no empathy. What a fall from grace! What troubles me though, is that the state of Illinois from my understanding has had four of the last nine governors go to prison after their terms! That's a dubious distinction.
I'm from Chicago, IL and I, too was somewhat surprised by the tough sentence. Even Gov. Quinn gave Blago no empathy. What a fall from grace! What troubles me though, is that the state of Illinois from my understanding has had four of the last nine governors go to prison after their terms! That's a dubious distinction.
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@6: As Jon Stewart pointed out, you are more likely to go to jail in Illinois if you become the governor than if you commit a murder.
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@DM: I suspect that the folks you knew who got Club Fed were in the prison farm situation, not the minimum security situation, that's all. Private felons, who defraud people but aren't elected officials, get lighter/easier sentences because they're just con men, not betrayers of the whole public. Or so the logic goes. I agree that white collar criminals ought to do the same hard time that violent criminals do (just make sentences equal to dollar amounts: then your armed robber who does four years for sticking up a liquor store sets a floor for the banker who bilks people out of millions. The stickup man gets four years, the banker four million). But the bankers write the laws, so that's not gonna happen.
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Completely logical and I'm sure you're right, CF. Private sector vs elected official, the 2 cases aren't an apples to apples comparison.
2 of the men in the 22 year old case I mentioned are now Attorney's, 1 owns a restaurant and an avocado/horse ranch and the 4th drowned on a river rafting trip. I've never heard a dollar figure for how much any of them had to pay in restitution to their victims.
2 of the men in the 22 year old case I mentioned are now Attorney's, 1 owns a restaurant and an avocado/horse ranch and the 4th drowned on a river rafting trip. I've never heard a dollar figure for how much any of them had to pay in restitution to their victims.
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