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Williams walks free and BoMo take the fall. Couldn’t have happened to two nicer probes.
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They were offered a really sweet plea deal before the indictment, but rejected it. That’s going to cost them dearly. Oh, and the rote appeal of the jury verdict will go about as far as a snowball in Hell. Enjoy prison you two!
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Pure hubris. They both thought they could sway the jury.
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Now lets look into how many republicans accepted gifts and money from the koch brothers and sheldon adelson.
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Who knows - we may see some in the future
I have no sympathy for the McDonnells. They knew what they were doing is wrong.
Still, the holder of the governor’s office during McDonnell’s time in the statehouse was only $166,000. To some, that may sound like a lot of money. But if the governor must pay for ceremonial matters or political events, that salary is way too little. It is so small as to invite the officeholder’s corruption.
The people of Virginia got what they paid for.
I see what you did there.
The family that grifts together will do even more time, together.
So he got a few dollars and a nice watch and gave Williams nothing in return that is a betrayal of the people of Virginia? No here is a real betrayal: http://fairfaxfreecitizen.com/2014/02/01/costs-uncontrolled-immigration-fairfax-beyond/
I have no idea how McDonnell, himself a trained lawyer, allowed the “blame the wife” defense even to get started. Especially when he had a much better excuse: poor role models. After all, he learned how to be a politician at the feet of Jerry Lewis, a guy who milked hundreds of millions in earmarks for his buddies and family, and knew how to stay ahead of an emerging corruption scandal. Moreover, he was forced by his job into regular contact with DC pols and the Virginia legislature. How can anyone stay clean with such a doomed work history?
And Jeffrey Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein, Henry Paulson, and more betrayed the people of America, and we bailed them out and secured their bonuses, and there’ll be no prosecutions from the DOJ.
Oh, no, instead the DOJ brags about these “huge monetary penalties,” paid for by the shareholders, that serve to shield the perps from accountability.
Department of Justice my ass.
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Well, so to being a “trained lawyer,” we have to remember that he was trained at Pat Robertson’s unaccredited (at the time) law “school.”
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I have no sympathy for pols of any stripe who use their positions to fatten their wallets and the wallets of wives and other family members while openly declaiming their religious and personal integrity. The real shame is that these users and takers are sent to country club prisons instead of real prisons.
Now, now. We can’t all go to ABA-accredited law schools.
How about his betrayal of evangelical Christians? They are used to their leaders having feet of clay. Forgiveness is the Lord’s. But it must be galling to run on a PTL platform, focusing on the virtues of his God-fearing husbandhood, and then throwing his wife under the bus in a way that even Christians will be hard put to forgive.
Won’t be sentenced until January . Why ?
It would be nice to hear at the sentencing, “For the first year of your 25 year sentences, you and Maureen will be detained in the same cell 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with a 1/2 hour every 12 hours to shower and eat.”
Good luck to your both. lol lol
“The couple’s sentencing has been set for Jan. 6.”
A lot of time between now and then. I suspect another chapter in the interim as they flail to avoid prison. But to prison they will go, although it will be the nice prison with carpeting and wi fi.