Why is it you can go to prison longer for an ounce of pot than you can for money laundering millions upon millions of dollar?

I don't give a rats butt how much Abramoff is co-operating.

White collar crimes usually effects we peons a lot more as a whole than a guy smoking pot in his own
house but yet we do more time.



DOJ seeks lighter sentences for ex-lobbyist Abramoff

Thursday, August 28, 2008
Joe Shaulis at 11:16 AM ET


[JURIST] The US Justice Department (DOJ) [official website] has asked federal judges in Florida and Washington, DC, to give lenient sentences to former lobbyist Jack Abramoff [JURIST news archive], who has cooperated in the prosecution of several legislative and executive branch officials. Since 2006, Abramoff has been serving a six-year prison term [JURIST report] on fraud and conspiracy charges filed in Florida; next week, he is scheduled to be sentenced in Washington to as much as 11 years for tax evasion, fraud and conspiracy. The DOJ recommended Wednesday that the Florida sentence be reduced to four years and that the Washington court impose a sentence of five years. If the judges follow those recommendations, Abramoff would be released in late 2011. His sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 4 in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website]. AP has more. Politico has additional coverage. The Washington Post has local coverage.

The DOJ said Abramoff's cooperation has helped secure the convictions of several former executive and legislative officials, including Robert Coughlin II, deputy chief of staff in the DOJ Criminal Division; Deputy US Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles; US Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH); David Safavian, former chief of staff of the US General Services Administration [JURIST reports]; and Tony Rudy, deputy chief of staff and press secretary to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX). Money-laundering and conspiracy charges [indictment text] against DeLay remain pending. Last week, a Texas appellate court allowed money-laundering indictments to stand [JURIST report] against two alleged co-conspirators of DeLay.

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008...nces-for-ex.php

Whatever the DOJ asks for, the Judge should quadruple the sentence. If they ask for 5, give him 20 years.

Don't be ridiculous, that would be so unfair. He and his cronies only stole a hundred million dollars from Indian tribes, laundered millions more, neglected to pay taxes and spread a web of corruption throughout the congress. What's the big deal? Besides, since he has been in jail he has been teaching film making classes.

This editorial from the famously unbiased and impartial Associated Press makes a plea for leniency:



Perhaps once they spring him, Abramoff can go into business with Michael Milken and make millions not brokering corporate acquisitions.

"Changed man" my fluffy white gluteus maximus.

I wonder IF when Abramoff is released can he go right back to lobbying? Or is he barred for life or what punishment besides jail would he get?

Well if, like Milken, Abramoff is technically banned from the profession that got him into so much trouble what he can do is go right back to lobbying only call it, say, hospitality. And he would also be smart to engage in some conspicuous and magnanimous humanitarian activities to help reinforce his image as a good guy. The good but misdirected citizen that he will be depicted as in the biography clearing his good name that he will have commissioned.

The Justice Department of the United States of America has been made into a mockery of justice.