Today was supposed to be Scott Bloch‘s day in court and, given that he’d reached a deal with prosecutors and pled guilty to misdemeanor contempt of Congress, the outcome had seemed relatively certain — he wasn’t headed to prison. But a judge had other plans.Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson of Washington’s federal trial court said in a ruling late Wednesday that Bloch, the former head of the Office of Special Counsel, must spend at least one month behind bars.
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