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MADem

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3. And Jim Traficant of Youngstown OH, he of the Squirrel On His Head, served a scant seven years.

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Thu Oct 10, 2013, 02:33 PM

Oct 2013

And let's not forget Duke "Top Gun" Cunningham (what an unmitigated asshole--talk about someone who violated his oathS on more than one occasion), who got ten years in 2006 but managed to get released this year.

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Kwame Kilpatrick, ex-Detroit mayor, sentenced to 28 years in jail [View all] Blue_Tires Oct 2013 OP

Wow. That's hefty. Makes the Illinois gov's sentence look like a piece of cake. MADem Oct 2013 #1

And Cianci got just 5 Blue_Tires Oct 2013 #2

And Jim Traficant of Youngstown OH, he of the Squirrel On His Head, served a scant seven years. MADem Oct 2013 #3