The only charges where they were found not guilty was falsifying a loan document.
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Republican Christo-fascist family values â lavish gifts for promoting a dietary supplement made from tobacco â why, thatâs uniquely American! See ya, Trans-Vaginal Bob!
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Holy crap, heâs guilty on 11 counts, 8 for her!
Epic line from WaPo: The McDonnell family is sobbing in the courtroom.
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and you can call it a political career. No fat pay day consultant job for you. That must hurt.
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Damn! I was just about to post that!
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Wonder if they are drying their eyes with a shredded ballgown?
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Justice is served!
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I remember it like it was just yesterday when our alternate universe white President was giving the alternate universe State of the Union address from the alternate universe /actual Confederate capital. And now heâs all grown upâŚ
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Somehow, I feel no remorse for them.
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And another one of the deep bench of 2016 goes boom.
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Strange trial and now I think of what it will mean to VA politics. I think they were guilty.
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McDonnell guilty. Perry indicted. Christy under investigation. Walker an un-indicted conspirator. Deal at the heart of a broadening scandal ( http://www.ajc.com/news/news/judge-orders-ethics-chief-ags-office-to-pay-20k-in/nhFQn/ ). And Scott, a Medicare fraud crook from way back.
Gotta get one of these fine Republican governors on the GOP ticket to lecture the country on morals and ethics.
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Why??
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Love the WaPo synopsis:
The verdict: Guilty
A federal jury Thursday found former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, guilty of public corruptionâsending a message that they believed the couple sold the office once occupied by Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson to a free spending Richmond businessman for golf outings, lavish vacations and $120,000 in sweetheart loans.
After three days of deliberations, the seven men and five women who heard weeks of gripping testimony about the McDonnellsâ alleged misdeeds acquitted the couple of several charges pending against themâbut nevertheless found that they lent the prestige of the governorâs office to Jonnie R. Williams Sr. in a nefarious exchange for his largesse.
The verdict means that Robert McDonnell, who was already the first governor in Virginia history to be charged with a crime, now he holds an even more unwanted distinction: the first ever to be convicted of one.
He and his wife face decades in federal prison, though their actual sentence will probably fall well short of that.
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Andrew Cuomo, too.
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It is a bit striking how many major players have been convicted in recent years. Drop in a bucket, but still.
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What do you think Cuomo did?
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Itâs almost as satisfying as seeing those Vampire-hunter evangelists on True Blood get their comeuppance.
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Quick verdicts usually mean innocence. As others pointed out after I posted that comment, it wasnât as quick as I had believed.
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From your mouth to the Goddessâ ears
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