Former US representative from Louisiana, William "Cold Cash" Jefferson -- who was caught hiding $90,000 cash in his freezer -- was ordered released from prison the other day to receive a new sentencing hearing.
Jefferson had originally been sentenced to 13 years on corruption charges, and he'd served about half that time before a federal judge ordered his release after a 2016 Supreme Court decision that appears to make it more difficult to convict public officials on bribery-related offenses.
Judge lets former Louisiana congressman William Jefferson out of prison - The Washington Post
In other news, Florida's Corrine Brown, another former US representative who was also convicted on corruption charges for helping loot the coffers of a children's education charity she and several of her staffers oversaw, received a five-year prison sentence this week.
Federal prosecutors had pushed for a 7 to 9 year term but the judge showed some mercy for Brown after she pleaded for the lightest sentence possible. She and the staffers who helped her steal some $800,000 from a charity she'd set up -- ostensibly to benefit local Jacksonville, Florida youth educational initiatives -- all received multi-year stays at the crossbar hotel:
Corrine Brown sentenced to 5 years in federal prison
Sex harassment, corruption, serial incompetence... you name it, our Congress excels at doing all the bad things well. ;-)
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
Jefferson had originally been sentenced to 13 years on corruption charges, and he'd served about half that time before a federal judge ordered his release after a 2016 Supreme Court decision that appears to make it more difficult to convict public officials on bribery-related offenses.
Judge lets former Louisiana congressman William Jefferson out of prison - The Washington Post
In other news, Florida's Corrine Brown, another former US representative who was also convicted on corruption charges for helping loot the coffers of a children's education charity she and several of her staffers oversaw, received a five-year prison sentence this week.
Federal prosecutors had pushed for a 7 to 9 year term but the judge showed some mercy for Brown after she pleaded for the lightest sentence possible. She and the staffers who helped her steal some $800,000 from a charity she'd set up -- ostensibly to benefit local Jacksonville, Florida youth educational initiatives -- all received multi-year stays at the crossbar hotel:
Corrine Brown sentenced to 5 years in federal prison
Sex harassment, corruption, serial incompetence... you name it, our Congress excels at doing all the bad things well. ;-)
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."