Amazing. They managed to get thru the entire article without mentioning his party affiliation.
And it's a long article, too.
OTOH, he does have a purty mouth.
Posted on 08/30/2009 7:50:20 AM PDT by george76
Take it from those who have been there: Prison life is hard on people who need to be in control.
Especially politicians accustomed to giving orders, cutting deals, spending millions - and getting their way.
Former State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo is due to report to federal prison tomorrow, assigned to serve his 55-month sentence at a low-security institution in Ashland, Ky. His attorneys have fought that, wanting Fumo placed closer to family in Philadelphia.
What's definite, experts say, is that prisons specialize in turning people like Fumo from kings to peasants.
In free society, his dominion included four homes, a 100-acre farm, and a $1 million law-firm salary. In prison, it shrinks to a bunk, a locker, and a 12-cents-an-hour job.
As a former power broker, experts said, Fumo can expect petty harassment from inmates and staff eager to show him that he's no longer mighty.
Fumo, 66, was convicted in March of all 137 counts of conspiracy, fraud, and related charges after a trial that documented not just his crimes but also his personal compulsions and idiosyncracies.
Fumo is a technology geek, nicknamed "Sen. R2D2" by colleagues...
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
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Amazing. They managed to get thru the entire article without mentioning his party affiliation.
The Enemedia protecting their pals
I wish I believed this........but the guy has money and powerful friends........I suspect his stay in prison will be as comfortable as possible.
I want to see pictures of him walking around the exercise yard holding onto somebody’s inside-out pants pocket.
I guess the Inky felt that given his conviction and jail sentence and all it was redundant.
A close friend of my son worked in a federal prison for about 10 years in OR and is now a US Marshall.
According to him the inmates are not harassed but they are made to follow the regimen to the letter. Fumo’s stay will not be a pleasant one just as no inmates stay in a fed prison is.
No mention of party in title, subtitle, first sentence, or first paragraph...therefore its a democrat.
Amazing. They managed to get thru the entire article without mentioning his party affiliation.
And it's a long article, too.
OTOH, he does have a purty mouth.
Club Fed.
Philadelphia "loses" Fumo's property-tax file
by The Associated Press
Tuesday February 05, 2008, 12:20 PM
MATT ROURKE, The Associated Press
A powerful lawmaker's Victorian mansion in Philadelphia is assessed at about 4 percent of its market value, sparing him a huge property-tax bill, but the reason for the low valuation might never be known.
The city tax board has lost his file.
With the documents gone, a board spokesman says he cannot fully explain why state Sen. Vincent Fumo's 27-room home is valued at $250,000. Fumo is trying to sell it for $6 million....
LOL
board spokesman says he cannot fully explain why
It would be interesting to take 100 random MSM stories about jailed or disgraced politicians, 50 Dem and 50 GOP, and create a table of where (or whether) party affiliation shows up in the story.
Okay, have at it.
What are they bitching about? It's a nine hour drive and it's all Interstate.
Actions have consequences.
It's bias.
Were they hoping he'd be placed in Lewisburg amongst the gang members? (Lewisburg is now being converted to a SuperMax) Even Allenwood, "right up the road" from Lewisburg is no longer the "country club" prison it once was when Traficant and G. Gordon Liddy had their extended vacations.
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