Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell sentenced to serve two years in prison
Source: WDBJ7 ABC Affiliate
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RICHMOND, Va. -
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell will serve two years in prison on 11 public corruption counts.
Read more: http://www.wdbj7.com/news/local/bob-mcdonnell-arrives-in-court-for-sentencing/30552078
Wabbajack_
(1,300 posts)Too bad he wasn't Romney's VP nominee, this would be much more embarrassing for the Rethugs.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Probably the potential Veep candidate who vetted best would have been Huntsman, except they couldn't have two Mormons on the ticket.
They quickly dismissed Christie and McDonnell from what I saw, which says a lot.
The Romney campaign was also terrible at mathematics.
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)He's really a scumbag
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)SMH
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)I just looked it up and Blago did far less. this was a team. who wants to guess she'll do far more time?? Someone paid the judge
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)he should have been sentenced to a lot more. Was the judge a scum of the earth repuke?
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)and probably run for Congress a year after that.
NecklyTyler
(1,173 posts)Prison where the inmates have smart phones, laptop computers and meals served on glass plates with clean table cloths. He will spend his hours of rehabilitation hitting the gym, getting a tan, and writing that book he always wanted to write. When he gets out there will be the book deal and that 'political consulting' job at Fox News to pay the bills.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)No wonder they keep doing it. There's virtually no consequences.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)jmowreader
(50,560 posts)As hard as he was playing the Jesus Card, I really figured they'd hand him a thousand hours of community service and no prison time.
It's at least eight years less than he should have received; I would have pitched his ass in prison for fifteen years without possibility of parole without one pang of remorse. And then I'd have asked the state of Virginia to oversee his confinement; maybe his cellmate would have been someone whose act was made illegal by Bob McDonnell.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)Was she sentenced yet?
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Beacool
(30,250 posts)Going by all I've read, she was the driving force behind their schemes. She should get a harsher sentence than he did.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)--he's not mentally deficient. He went along with everything. They are equally criminal.