Posted on 01/06/2015 12:27:10 PM PST by iowamark
2 years?
Good grief. They should have made an example out of him. At least 10. These politicians need to be held to a higher standard if they are charged with lording over the masses.
>> It is harder to point to anything McDonnell got from Williams <<
IIRC, one of the judge’s instructions to the jury said they didn’t need to find anything definite that McDonnell got from Williams. They only needed to detect something that didn’t seem correct. So in effect, the jury was told they could convict merely on the basis of suspicion. That instruction ought to be the basis for a very strong appeal.
If McDonnell is in jail for implied corruption what would the parallel punishment be for Hillary’s handling of Benghazi?
James Trafficant got 7 years for similar type stuff. Two years is fair. I thought 10 was way too much. For a guy like McDonnell the public humiliation and loss of career is devastating to start off with.
Her sentencing is scheduled for next month.
McDonnell was my governor, and I really liked him when he took office. Now I see him as just another corrupt politician, and a Romney lover to boot. I can't work up a lot of tears for him.
I do note, however, that the Republican McDonnell gets jail time, and the POS crook Terry McAuliffe sits in the governor's mansion.
The latest as of yesterday Jan 26 is that a 3 judge panel of a Fed appeals court basically says ....I paraphrase...They see many problems with this conviction/indictment and the likelihood of a reversal or new trial is great
His conviction reeked of a witch hunt
you realize of course that a US Fed appeals Court yesterday as much as said there will be either a new trial or a reversal...I paraphrase
Funny the story seems to be almost buried....There is a link that shows this, nobody has posted it here and I dont think Drudge covered it,.. I got it today on the 700 Club at the beginning of the program from Pat himself
Yes you can find the link via google
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