{"id":190564,"date":"2009-11-13T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/13\/william-dollar-bill-jefferson-gets-13-years\/"},"modified":"2009-11-13T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T02:40:00","slug":"william-dollar-bill-jefferson-gets-13-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/13\/william-dollar-bill-jefferson-gets-13-years\/","title":{"rendered":"William &#8220;Dollar Bill&#8221; Jefferson Gets 13 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t see the sentence as unjust, this man was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=aqH14FJZBS98\">aggressively corrupt, and took bribes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I do wonder though why Randall &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham, who did <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">far<\/span> worse, compromising major defense contracts and the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">operations of the CIA<\/span> in the process of his corruption only got 7 years?<\/p>\n<p>As to whether it&#8217;s a black\/white thing, or a Democratic\/Republican thing, or Cunningham&#8217;s age\/health, or his history as a stick jock, I don&#8217;t know, but the disparity is troubling.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying that Jefferson didn&#8217;t get what he deserved.  He deserved that, and more.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m saying that Cunningham should have gotten more, even <span>with<\/span> the <span>leniency<\/span> accorded a guilty plea relative to Jefferson&#8217;s conviction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t see the sentence as unjust, this man was aggressively corrupt, and took bribes. I do wonder though why Randall &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham, who did far worse, compromising major defense contracts and the operations of the CIA in the process of his corruption only got 7 years? As to whether it&#8217;s a black\/white thing, or &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}