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  • #1

    Delay sentenced

    He gets three years for the conspiracy charge plus 10 yrs probation for the money laundering

    http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/5...stert.html.csp

    or this is another URL

    http://townhall.com/news/us/2011/01/...ears_in_prison


    Even if what he did was legal as he claimed, he shouldn't be skating that close to the edge!
    Last edited by happyone; 01-10-2011, 01:30 PM.

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  • #2
    seems to me he got what he deserved, maybe a little light on the sentencing.
    Dio perdona tante cose per un’opera di misericordia
    God forgives many things for an act of mercy
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    • #3
      Originally posted by pellegrino View Post
      seems to me he got what he deserved, maybe a little light on the sentencing.
      I think it was a lot light on the sentencing. If the courts aren't willing to throw the book at politicians, the politicians will never stop what they do.
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      • #4
        It's all going to be overturned.

        It took the liberalest (?) jurisdiction in a thousand miles a few swings and misses - and a few tweaks of exactly what he was being charged with - to get charges through a grand jury. Common sense throws this one out.

        Money laundering? Or being cautious with the movement of cash flows so that you're not implicated in favoring hard money side of the equation in a situation where there were rules about mixing hard and soft money, but no rules or actions requiring (or logic making possible!) that they be kept 100% apart at all times and from all points of view.

        Hard and soft money are both fully fungible. By the logic of this ruling, every single politician involved in any single organization that had both hard and soft money sources is just as guilty. And while there were 'laws against it' - there were no 'laws against it.' PLENTY of organizations had both hard and soft money funding. What those groups couldn't do was move things from Hard sources to soft - hard money had a lot more rules around it. So they made sure that after certain perfectly legal transactions occurred, there was no net shift in hard v soft money funding.

        A crazy prosecutor in Austin TX convinced a grand jury that their ensuring no net shift toward soft money (although everyone did it - and for for the same reason) was somehow evidence of a grand conspiracy. The numbers just balanced out too perfectly for it not to have been a conspiracy.

        The numbers balanced because the movements were exactly enough to ensure to anyone who follows such things that there wasn't a net shift. If they'd simply plotted the logic of the cash-flows out in a spreadsheet they would've gotten an error for a circular reference, which is what the grand jury and jury bought hook line and sinker. It's a ruling that makes logic - sorry - Reason stare...
        Last edited by statman; 01-10-2011, 09:06 PM.

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        • #5
          Don't worry, statman. Tom will be in good company. Texas prisons are chock-full of people who are innocent.

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