Comments on: William Jefferson (D) gets 13 years.

By: erod

erod — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:42:33 +0000

By: The_Gadfly

The_Gadfly — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:08:06 +0000

and the sentence should have been much much more severe. But given how corrupted the criminal justice system has become in favor of the crooks, I’ll take what we can get.

By: larryp

larryp — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:42:01 +0000

5…4..3…2..1…being worked out now for some time when the nations attention is diverted.

By: Michael Dugas

Michael Dugas — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:28:44 +0000

If he does straight federal time, no special breaks that I’m unaware of, than he’ll do over 10 years on this sentence. And lkdavis there are alot more Dems than 2 more.
Pelosi has been funneling federal dollars to her husbands company.
Reid has been involved in a ton of shady land deals in Nevada as well as accepting free ringside tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission to three professional boxing matches while that state agency was trying to influence him on federal regulation of boxing and there’s that building an alleged public airport with federal dollars
in which he makes up pretty much ALL of the public that uses that airport.
Chris Dodd and Barney Franks should both be in prison for their part in Fannie and Freddie. They both accepted huge donations from Fannie and Freddie while they were supposed to be the oversight for those two entities.
Diane Fienstein has also shown no problem abusing her power to line her own pockets. In May of 2008, the FDIC began an RFP process to help manage and resell its immense portfolio of foreclosed real estate. It received proposals from 18 firms.
Feinstein wrote to the FDIC head on Oct. 30, as her husband’s firm (CBRE) was still competing for the contract. Bair responded in November, noting that she had not been able to convince Treasury to fund her plan for handling foreclosures. On November 13th, the FDIC inked a contract with CBRE that could yield tens of millions of dollars (or more) when most commercial real estate firms are dying on the vine. CBRE was suffering greatly; its share price had hemorrhaged from $24.50 in May to $3.77 in November.
Feinstein’s husband’s partnerships bought 10.6 million shares at a price of $3.77. Several days later, the FDIC announced CBRE had won the contract. Foreclosure management experts call the contract “highly unusual” and stated that some of its fees were “egregious”. For example, CBRE can collect $7,500 on the sale of a property worth $25,000 or less ..Thats like 30%+ commission…must be nice. Experts state that competitive commissions for similar properties are between $2,000 and $2,500… a third of the fee…….Nice work if you can get it.
Together, Feinstein and her husband are worth north of $52.3 million, according to her 2007 financial disclosure.
Murtha…well Murtha, as well as being the PORK King, deserves prison for his traitorous treatment of our military. Scumbag.
Eliot Engel is a tax cheat extraordinaire. I have a list of more…they all should be in jail, you and I would most likely be if we committed
and repeated the offenses they have.
Just sayin…….

By: Michael Dugas

Michael Dugas — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:54:05 +0000

Of course he’d probably volunteer…..just saying.

By: lkdavis

lkdavis — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:49:47 +0000

maybe we could reopen Alcatraz to house them.

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By: LISA BULLOCK-HOCK

LISA BULLOCK-HOCK — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:18:52 +0000

Rangel is the worst of the worst. He rights tax code for us working folks — slaves to follow, but forgets what he wrote. SHAMEFUL.

By: gekster

gekster — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:00:43 +0000

but a crook is more honerable

By: Tbone

Tbone — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:46:06 +0000

“Jefferson must forfeit $470,653.47 to the government that the jury determined was obtained illegally”

“Jefferson’s lawyers, who are owed more than $5.7 million by Jefferson,”

By: CSUFBomb

CSUFBomb — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:44:32 +0000

One can only hope that Barry will take a clue and stash some of this nation’s $$$ in a freezer rather than burning it on saving or creating DMV jobs.

By: Darin_H

Darin_H — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:00:56 +0000

From In his freezer

to taking it In his can…

Enjoy Federal PMITA prison, Jefferson (D).

By: OneCleverCookie

OneCleverCookie — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:53:42 +0000

is that his former house district will just elect another moron, crook, or both. Louisiana is famous for that, i.e. Huey Long, Edwin Edwards, and the clown that replaced Jefferson, Cao. Yes, even conservative hopeful Bobby Jindal could easily follow into some of the afore mentioned footsteps.

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:40:12 +0000

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2009/11/burnell_moliere_sentenced_to_p.html

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:35:34 +0000

Just about everyone else is up on RICO charges.

By: Moe Lane

Moe Lane — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:33:32 +0000

Your state, after all.

By: peg_c

peg_c — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:32:25 +0000

as they say. Or rather, as we say, more and more often lately.

By: samdallas

samdallas — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:32:02 +0000

Whether or not he loses his congressional health care, he’ll still have government healthcare

By: bk

bk — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:19:02 +0000

to house him and all his kinfolk? I think pretty much every relative of his is in the slammer or awaiting trial, aren’t they?

By: rbdwiggins

rbdwiggins — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:10:42 +0000

Sentenced to 13-Years, a congressional record by the way, on Friday the 13th.

By: mom2oneson

mom2oneson — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:10:02 +0000