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发帖数: 29846 | 1 By Ashby Jones
By the time Rod Blagojevich gets out of prison (assuming he serves the
entire thing), it will be the year 2025 or ’26 and the world will look a
lot different.
We’ll fly around with jetpacks, have glossy tablet computers built into our
wrists, and Brett Favre will be the starting quarterback for the expansion
Los Angeles Mudslides.
It’s a long way of saying that, yes, the former Illinois governor is going
to prison for a long, long time. Chicago federal judge James Zagel on
Wednesday sentenced Blago to 14 years in prison. The sentence came nearly
three years after he was arrested and charged with a wide-ranging corruption
spree including trying to auction off President Barack Obama’s former
Senate seat. Click here for the WSJ story; here for the Chicago Tribune
story; here for the Reuters story.
Blagojevich, a one-time rising star in the Democratic party whose media-
driven defense included stints on reality TV and a book tour, was convicted
on 18 counts of corruption.
While the defense argued that Blagojevich’s schemes had not cost the state
a penny, Judge James B. Zagel said the real cost was “the erosion in trust
for the government.”
Earlier, Mr. Blagojevich, dressed in a dark gray, tailored suit, addressed
the judge in a markedly subdued tone that contrasted sharply with his
usually animated presence. Blagojevich also tried an unusual (for him)
tactic: admitting that he did wrong.
“I’m guilty,” he said. “And I’m incredibly sorry. I have no one to
blame but myself–my stupidity.”
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"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary."
--- Ernesto "Che" Guevara
看某些人的帖子有感，五千年的奴性文化的熏陶，真不是盖的。
管你在美国呆一辈子，也还一样。 |
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