"Heigh ho, heigh ho. It's off to jail I go."Something good happened in Chicago today. No, the Cubs didn't win the World Series. Instead, former governor Rod Blagoyevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption. He now will join his predecessor, George Ryan, who is also in prison for corruption.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/07/blagojevich-sentenced-to-14-years-in-prison/?test=latestnews
Personally, I feel the sentence is too light, but 14 years is no walk in the park. What is now important is following up on who it was that tried to buy a Senate seat from Bloyevich when President Obama vacated his seat to wreck the White House.
But I digress.
We have heard a lot of names mentioned as people wanting to make a deal with Blagoyevich to name a successor as Senator from Illinois. Jesse Jackson Jr was known to want the job. Obama's White House advisor Valerie Jarrett initially wanted the job, and the White House was reportedly pushing for her. What was Rahm Emanuel's role, if any?
I wonder if Obama will pardon him, and if that consideration would affect Blago's willingness to make a deal with the prosecutors. Or on second thought, has this particular Justice Department even tried to get him to sing about those who were trying to buy that Senate seat? Or does this really represent the end of the case?
He is typical of what you get from the liberals. Don't worry though, Gary, I believe that soon enough we'll see Obama behind bars for his countless crimes against the Constitution and America.
ReplyDeleteBTW, hasn't that "cooperation" horse already left the barn? As I understand it, once he is convicted and sentenced it is too late to try to make a deal. It might help him with the Parole Board but there wouldn't be any guarantees.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing really left would be a sentence reduction hearing, which would have to be initiated by the prosecution based on Blago's cooperation. I testified at one such hearing in Pittsburgh, where we were having a sentence reduced based on the defendant's cooperation. Blago should have spilled the beans a long time ago.
ReplyDeleteOnly 14 years. He could have gotten 30.
ReplyDeleteGiven the way the penal system is, he just might be out in 24 months.
Generally, the conviction of the perpetrator is the end of the case. All the evidence points to Blago coming up with the notion that the appointment was "gold" and he wasn't going to give it away for free. It's not like an clean, innocent governor was entrapped by corrupt office seekers offering him money he never asked for.
ReplyDeleteWhatever else you may think of our president, and you are usually wrong, nobody could think he is stupid enough to pardon this guy. We all have before us the outrage that erupted when Marc Rich was pardoned. He won't be going there.