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Judi Lynn

(160,601 posts) Tue Apr 5, 2016, 03:34 AM Apr 2016

Prosecutors seek 12-15 years in prison for ex-Senate leader

Source: Associated Press

Prosecutors seek 12-15 years in prison for ex-Senate leader

Updated 10:37 pm, Monday, April 4, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge should sentence a former state Senate leader for his extortion conviction to about 12 to 15 years in prison, federal prosecutors said in pre-sentencing submissions filed Monday.

Prosecutors said Republican ex-senator Dean Skelos and his son, Adam Skelos, should each face prison terms approaching or within federal sentencing guidelines, about 10 to 12 years for the son.

"At a time when the public's trust in their government is at an all-time low, Dean and Adam Skelos — through their conduct and their words — have managed to lower the bar even further," prosecutors said. "Judges have routinely relied on precisely this kind of public harm analysis in imposing substantial prison terms in similar cases."

Skelos and his son are scheduled to be sentenced April 28. They were convicted in December after a jury agreed with prosecutors that Skelos had strong-armed three companies with a stake in state legislation into giving work to his son. The government said the businesses provided the son with about $300,000 and other benefits.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Prosecutors-seek-12-15-years-in-prison-for-7228081.php

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Prosecutors seek 12-15 years in prison for ex-Senate leader (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2016 OP

I had to really search the internet to find out this guy's political party. Stevepol Apr 2016 #1

It says he's a R in the second paragraph. nt. druidity33 Apr 2016 #2

I Thought Doing Time Was Part Of The Job scottie55 Apr 2016 #3

It's the Republican Terms of Service. sofa king Apr 2016 #4

Stevepol

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1. I had to really search the internet to find out this guy's political party.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Apr 5, 2016, 04:59 AM

Apr 2016

Finally, I found the answer on Wikipedia. He's a Republican, naturally, but these days, be honest, he could almost as easily have been a Democratic. The only difference is that IF HE HAD BEEN A DEMOCRAT, I wouldn't have had to search through the internet to find out. It's the Fox News approach to reporting facts. If you like the fact, you report it. If you don't, you don't. That's the epitome of Fox News: Unfair and Unbalanced. And evidently that's at least a good bit of the New York Times and just about all the other news agencies, etc.