NYT's/AP: Former G.O.P. Official Gets Prison for Embezzlement

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"The former treasurer of a Republican Party committee was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for stealing political funds, including money from dinners headlined by President George W. Bush. The man, Christopher J. Ward, was sentenced to 37 months imprisonment and ordered to pay back $844,000. Most of the money came from the National Republican Congressional Committee, where he was treasurer from 2003 to 2007. His lawyers said that Mr. Ward was able to steal the money because he had check-writing authority and little oversight."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/us/politics/03brfs-FORMERGOPOFF_BRF.html?ref=politics



Nothing surprising here, except that the bum actually got jail time.