About time.
Deserves every minute. (When 5-mil-plus is all they can convict you on…)
I think “White Man Goes to Prison For Financial Corruption” deserves a more prominent headline, one befitting the rarity of its occurrence.
Our guys go to jail and serve time - theirs get medals
In the 9th Ring of Dante’s Inferno, where the worst punishments are meted out, are corrupt public officials, corrupt clergy and people who have violated a public trust.
To Dante, they were the worst of sinners.
The prosecutor also is examining consulting work done by one of Cuomo’s former top aides in 2014, when the aide spent eight months on leave. In response, Cuomo’s administration is conducting an internal review.
Gee, we wondered why his parking space was always empty, and why he wasn’t taking part in the office football pool.
The third man in the room, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, promised sweeping reforms to New York’s anti-corruption laws after last year’s convictions. But so far, there has been no significant action.
I’m all for going after corruption, wherever it’s found. This kind of stuff hurts regular Americans…and gets no sympathy from me.
I wish Bharara was also investigating Bridgegate. Not quite sure what’s happening with that.
That may be the case; these convictions are rare. But I still think that this is one aspect of the American justice system the country can be proud about. Bc these corruption convictions happen much more often than in any other Western democracy. And I don’t think that American officials are inherently more corrupt than French, British, or German. But in most countries the fall from grace, the removal from the political scene and perhaps a stiff fine is seen as a punishment that fits the crime, without additional jail time. The United States is the only democratic country I know that regularly puts corrupt officials behind bars (China is a different situation; you first have to lose a power struggle, and then you can be punished). Kudos for that!
BTW, the same applies for criminal business leaders. There are quite a few in American jails, and almost none in any other OECD country.