Posted on 09/15/2015 4:53:47 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
At first, it looked like Jeffrey Garcia, the former campaign manager for ex-Congressman Joe Garcia, was heading to prison for breaking an election law, even after a prosecutor recommended probation as punishment.
“The problem is, this type of crime strikes at the very core of our democracy,” U.S. District Judge Jose Martinez declared Monday, noting that he found it “infuriating” the way outsiders think of Miami as a “Banana Republic” because of all its fraud and corruption.
But in the end, after telling the defense attorney for Jeffrey Garcia that he was confronting an “uphill road,” Martinez gave the defendant a two-year probationary sentence with eight months of home confinement and a $1,000 fine. Jeffrey Garcia and Joe Garcia are not related.
Martinez cited prosecutor Kimberly Selmore’s support for the lenient sentence, along with defense attorney Henry Bell’s arguments that his client cooperated extensively with the FBI investigation, including testifying before the grand jury, and had already been severely punished after losing his solid career as a once-respected political strategist. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
This is Miami....nothing is legit there.
Lets play ‘how far do I have to go into the article before the journo mentions the political party the perp belongs to’ - answer 6 paragraphs.
Also noteworthy - the Republican who ran against the perp is mentioned in the penultimate paragraph of the article as having committed the same crime as the perp but it only takes 2 sentences for the journo to mention his political affiliation.
The Banana Republic comment is dead on. I have friends in Colombia that call Miami third world LOL
Lots of posturing and angst by the “judge” for public consumption. Ultimately there are 2 codes of law: one for the elites, another for the little people. Looks like this turkey got the elite sentencing guidelines.
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