Duke Cunningham gets to keep his pension

just heard it on cspan. what a country!

related article:

http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=euLTJbMUKvH&b=312470&ct=1638049

Prosecutors finally began arguing that a controversial pension deal was criminal in nature on Monday after speculation surrounding the agreement, which underfunded the retirement system while increasing employees' future retirement checks, has swirled for three years.

But while the U.S. Attorney's Office effectively wrapped up its case against a local House member who Monday admitted to taking millions in bribes from defense contractors before even going to trial, the corruption allegations tied to pension dealings do not appear to be as easily resolved.

The preliminary hearing of the pension case began Monday. The court heard not just opening arguments about whether the case should proceed to trial, but also the testimony of the well-known whistleblower who finally had her day in court.

"There will be many matters brought up in this preliminary hearing that make it much like a trial," Superior Court Judge Frederic Link said.

So tax dollars will still pay for this sonofabitch. Maybe he'll get shanked in the shower in the joint.

as the fact is he won't be sent to San Q. High profile people get ent to one of those vacation resort prison's that the media tries to pass off prison's as.

really thin.

the first thing to go would be his pension.
I'm experiencing outrage fatigue. :(

Gee, just think. That money could help victims of Katrina or maybe pay for some bombs in Iraq.

:crazy:

with his illegal monies.

WTF? That's outrageous!:grr::nuke:

:grr:

Thousands of other honest, hard working Americans have had their pensions terminated by rapacious managements and spineless courts. Then this criminal piece of shit comes along and has his pension protected. Something isn't right here, folks.

Welcome UFSA, United Fascist States of America.

It was reserved for people who had really, really disgraced the Empire.

Basicly their names were removed from the monuments and they officially became a non-person.

I think that would be a good thing for this country to adopt for any public official who's convicted of a crime--we probably can't chisel their names out of the monuments but clearly neither they nor their families should receive anything from the American taxpayers--except of course a prison cell and three squares a day.