It does not appear that John Wesley Colvin Jr. has 60 years left in him and he will die behind bars.
Posted on 02/13/2010 11:44:47 AM PST by UAConservative
NEW ORLEANS -- John Wesley Colvin Jr., a former state legislator from Alabama, deserves 60 years in state prison for ripping off six New Orleans families in a post-Katrina modular home scam, an Orleans Parish judge ruled today.
Colvin, 63, had already pleaded guilty to six counts of theft over $500 for bilking about $240,000 from people desperate to return home after the Katrina disaster flooded their neighborhoods in 2005. His victims, including two elderly people who asked their children to testify for them, filled one half of the courtroom today.
"I'm still not in my home," Annette Rainey testified. "I have an empty lot and a bunch of promises not kept. I'm in an apartment paying large amounts of rent. I'm still paying insurance on my home in the Lower 9th Ward."
Willie King spoke for his parents, including his father who was too frail to make the trip to New Orleans from his post-Katrina home in Alabama, recalling how in 2007 Colvin prayed with his family for the guidance to rebuild their home.
"The next day the check was cashed," King said, of the $43,200 sum his parents paid Colvin for a modular house. "John needs to go to jail and I think John needs to go to jail for a long time."
After hearing Colvin's friends and family testify that he was merely a bad businessman who lived to help the poor, and then from a tearful Colvin promising full restitution, Judge Darryl Derbigny ordered the maximum sentence.
"I also order restitution to make these people whole," Derbigny said at Criminal District Court. "You've irrevocably damaged these people's lives. You're going to carry them with you for the rest of your days."
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Why didn’t he just stash the money in his freezer so nobody would find it?
Where’s the world’s smallest violin?
Well, you can “dig” to discover he’s a Democrat, or just guess ...both successful.
Maybe I missed it but is there a (D) in there someplace?
No mention of party in first sentence = democrat.
Water is wet.
It does not appear that John Wesley Colvin Jr. has 60 years left in him and he will die behind bars.
What an idiot. He should have done his scam directly on the system rather than on individuals and he probably could have made off with millions like the rest of the Dems down there. I guess he wasn’t a big enough fish.
:-) I went back and looked and looked after your comment. I didn’t see Democrat there ... then I figured out what you were saying (finally saw the hidden /s!) You are right!
Ah come on guys ..he is just a big hearted Dum trying to help the “little” people.
If you think about it this fits the Dum dogma. You give us all your money and we will take good care of you.
More like I would put a gun to your head and steal your money...but that would be to obvious.
bump
Heh heh...
Party?
He doesn't have 60 days left in him once he reaches Angola.
John Colvin, Alabama Democrat
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Thanks for the link. I was only 8 months old when this article came out, which answers why I’m not familiar with this guy.
Why am I not shocked its not mentioned that he was a democrap?
I realize this guy needs to go to prison, am I the only one who thinks 60 years is excessive?
If it’s not mentioned in the opening paragraph of the story, ALWAYS assume Democrat.
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