CNN: Former Congressman Ney sentenced to 30 months

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/01/just-in-former-congressman-ney.html

Just In: Former Congressman Ney sentenced to 30 months

[derby378]

1. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...

Bon voyage, monsieur fuckhead!

:rofl:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. boo effin hoo.

too little, too late. But still a good start.

[ShortnFiery]

3. Good! Now take away his taxpayer funded pension. n/t

[Pacifist Patriot]

11. I think it should be automatic...

any elected official convicted of a felony should instantly lose their pension.

[brentspeak]

4. Club Fed...or Club Fred (Fred, the mad dog rapist cellmate)?

[GregD]

5. only 30 months?

These bastards have the trust, and the fate, of the nation in their hands.

If they are corrupt and break laws, their penalty should reflect that.

30 months is crap. He deserves much longer.

[aggiesal]

10. Agreed. 30 months is nothing.No doubt, he'll get time off on good behavior.

And only end up serving about half that time.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

13. 85% of federal time...

Must be served. That's the law.

[Gregorian]

12. Didn't he have a 10 year minimum?

Am I thinking of some other republican criminal? I swore he had several 7-10 minimums.

Maybe there's something else going on. Like plea bargaining. I have no idea.

[Gregorian]

16. Oops. That was Noe, not Ney.

[mikelgb]

6. lol

that's longer than a term in the House

[cmd]

7. I just can't wipe the grin off my face.

My former congressman is going to prison. Serves him right for sneering at his constituents. Ha. Ha. Ha.

[Roland99]

8. And wasn't he considering running for re-election?!?!

AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!

[aquart]

9. See? That's my reaction.

If only every day could start with a smile this way.

[Tom Joad]

14. He gets a longer federal term than if he had won reelection!

[Fly by night]

15. He deserves more time than that for being the principal author of HAVA ...

... and thus making the democratic process less secure than it has ever been. Why don't we get a federal prosecutor to interview him about what's really behind the Hoodwink America's Voters Act (while we still have one who doesn't suck the Smirking Chimp's butt).

[Tight_rope]

17. Ex-Ohio Rep. Ney sentenced to 30 months

By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer
53 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Former Rep. Bob Ney was sentenced Friday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for trading political favors for gifts and campaign donations from lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Ney, the first congressman ensnared in the lobbying scandal, pleaded guilty in October to conspiracy and making false statements. He admitted being corrupted by golf trips, tickets, meals and campaign donations from Abramoff.

"You violated a host of laws that you as a congressman are sworn to enforce and uphold," said U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle, who recommended that Ney serve his time at a federal prison in Morgantown, W.Va.

Ney will also serve two years probation and must pay a $6,000 fine. Huvelle recommended he enter a prison alcohol rehabilitation program for treatment of a drinking problem he has acknowledged in recent months. Completing the program could knock about a year off his sentence.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070119/ap_on_go_co/ney_corruption


They sure tried to hide this fast on yahoo. But I found it. Everyone go in and rate it as #5

[Quakerfriend]

18. That's it?

What about the millions he stole?

:bounce:

[Tight_rope]

20. Man...what do you expect... It was a "WHITE COLLAR" crime!

Now if he had been caught with a dime bag of weed, well then you should expect 5 to 10 years in prison. After all smoking weed only hurts yourself, but stealing millions hurts everyone. Go figure!:argh:

[citygal]

19. Done!

[hashibabba]

21. If you're sentenced to a federal prison, do you have to

serve the entire sentence, with no time off for good behavior? It seems like I just heard that recently. I hope so, even though 2 1/2 years isn't much.

Also, does the federal prison system have the *camps* for white collar criminals or does the slime get to serve out his sentence in a regular prison?

Thanks!

[Fly by night]

23. Answers to your questions

Ney will have to serve at least 85% of his sentence, unless he is eligible for and enrolls in a substance abuse program in prison. (If he does that, he can have another year dropped from his sentence.)

The feds do have low security "camps" in addition to medium and high security prisons. None of them are any fun.

Fly by night
Federal Bureau of Prisons # 16502-075
( www.saveberniesfarm.com )

[Earth_First]

22. Say goodbye to your federal pension, Mr. Ney...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2686188

[Judi Lynn]

24. Former GOP Rep. Bob Ney sentenced to 2½ years in bribery scandal

Former GOP Rep. Bob Ney sentenced to 2½ years in bribery scandal

By Matt Apuzzo
ASSOCIATED PRESS

11:06 a.m. January 19, 2007



Associated Press
Former Ohio Rep. Bob Ney leaves U.S. Federal Court in Washington Friday. Ney was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for his role in a congressional bribery scandal.

WASHINGTON – Former Republican Rep. Bob Ney was sentenced to 2½ years in prison Friday for trading political favors for golf trips, campaign donations and other gifts in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.

Ney, the first congressman convicted in the federal bribery investigation involving lawmakers, their aides and Bush administration officials, pleaded guilty in October to conspiracy and making false statements.

The six-term lawmaker from Ohio, who once chaired the powerful House Administration Committee, accepted golf and gambling trips, tickets to sporting events, free meals and campaign donations arranged by Abramoff and his associates.
(snip)

“I will continue to take full responsibility, accept the consequences and battle the demons of addiction that are within me,” he said.
(snip)

Ney, 52, is still eligible to receive his congressional pension. The National Taxpayers Union, which tracks pensions, said he would receive about $29,000 a year if he waited to draw it until 2016, when he turns 62.
(snip/...)

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20070119-1106-ney-corruption.html

[hyphenate]

25. The House of Cards

has finally run out of glue and is falling, falling, falling.........

If I could insert a sound here, it would be the mad scientist's cackling. For the first time in 6 years, there appears to be some light at the end of the tunnel...............

[Wilms]

26. n/t

[sakabatou]

27. I'm not shedding any tears...

[ellisonz]

28. He should get lessons from Martha Stewart.

Ha-ha. I hope he doesn't to try write a book that swine.

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[marions ghost]

29. No time to celebrate really--

as we speak, forces are moving to curtail the prosecution of white collar crimes...

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/060424/24eecrime.htm

The Crackdown Cracks
Getting tough on corporate crime is so yesterday. The pendulum is swinging back, hitting everyone from gumshoes to judges
By Kim Clark
4/24/06

The hang-'em-high days of cracking down on white-collar crime may already be over. As the trial of the two former CEOs of Enron captures headlines, companies and executives are quietly winning policy changes and court rulings to water down investor protection and weaken fraud investigations, prosecution, and punishment.

Even investor champions say some retrenchment may be needed to correct overzealous regulators and prosecutors. But there is a danger that this turn of the tide could run too swift and reach too far. Periods of corporate scandal are customarily followed by reforms. "Then they fade from the public's mind, and we roll back the reforms," says Lynn Turner, a former chief accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission who now directs research for the Glass, Lewis & Co. institutional investor advisory firm. "But I have been surprised by how quickly the pendulum has swung back this time." If the current trend continues, he warns, "the American public every right to question whether crime pays."

The pullback is evident at every level--from investigations to prosecutions to sentencing. And there's even a drive to weaken some new investor protection rules that force executives to give up conflicts of interest and do tougher audits.

Slowing the sleuths. Investigations may suffer if the Bush administration sticks with its 2007 budget, which calls for a reduction in the number of SEC investigators. Also, new legal barriers could hamper the longtime cooperation among different agencies' investigators. Several judges have dismissed charges against defendants because of concerns that overlapping investigations might result in a kind of double jeopardy. The judge in HealthSouth Corp. CEO Richard Scrushy's trial, for example, tossed out some of his charges last spring, saying the coordination between the SEC and the Department of Justice created an unfair "perjury trap" for Scrushy. Civil regulators can fine suspects who don't cooperate. But those who do talk risk providing incriminating evidence that will send them to jail on criminal charges. (Scrushy was eventually fully acquitted.) A federal judge in an Oregon accounting fraud case made a similar ruling in January.

(more at link)