Jails / Prisons : Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced to two and a half years in prison

I see a pretty fair amount of republicans on that list.

The reaction by some are funny. He broke the law. He go to jail. Why does it have to be more difficult than that?

$43,350 to buy a gold Rolex watch
$4,000 on a cruise
$243 at a Build-a-Bear workshop
multiple HDTVs, multiple Blu-Ray DVD players, numerous DVD’s for his Washington, D.C. home
$60,000 was spent on restaurants, nightclubs and lounges
$31,700 on personal airfare
$16,000 on sports clubs and lounges
$17,000 on tobacco shops
$5,800 on alcohol
$14,500 on dry cleaning
$8,000 on grocery stores
$6,000 at drug stores.
$7,058 to a taxidermist in Montana for two mounted ELK HEADS to be shipped to his office in Washington

This was the beginning of an FBI sting, according to court documents.

A year after the purchase, the taxidermist was asked to buy the elk heads back or provide the names of people who might buy them or build storage containers for them. This led to an undercover FBI agent offering to pay $5,300 for the heads. The money was to be wired to Jackson’s personal bank account, the documents state.

"Sir, for years I lived in my campaign," Jackson Jr. told U.S. District Judge Robert Wilkins. "I used monies that should have been used for campaign purposes, and I used them for myself personally, to benefit me personally. And I am acknowledging that that which the government has presented is accurate."



I don't believe it take rocket science intellect to infer that the "mental problems" he incurred was an attempt to muddy the water on his wrongdoings in hopes to affect his sentencing. And if by some small chance he did develop real mental problems, it probably was as a result of him knowing he screwed up and knowing his world was closing in around him.
 
The reaction by some are funny. He broke the law. He go to jail. Why does it have to be more difficult than that?

Since you posit that he broke the law, therefore he should go to jail, why don't you elaborate on why the heads of these corporations, who broke the law, (worse offenses than buying alcohol with campaign funds to be sure) didn't go to jail?

It's "that simple" right?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/nation/july-dec13/halliburton_07-26.html
http://www.salon.com/2012/12/11/hsbc_to_pay_1_9bn_to_settle_money_laundering_scandal/
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/bank-america-too-big-obey-law
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/08/07/feds-say-jpmorgan-broke-securities-laws-in-mortgage-deals/
 
I don't see any corporate bankers on that list. By the way, did all of those felonious politicians make headline news like JJ Jr.? Just curious . . .

NNQueen


Interesting excerpts from a decent source on corporate bankers and prosecution:


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For better or worse, many people would love to see more bankers behind bars for their role in blowing up the West’s financial system.

In America the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has filed over 40 lawsuits against officers and directors of failed institutions since 2010; more actions are expected. But prosecutors have brought few criminal charges against high-profile bankers. The American government secured its first crisis-related conviction of a senior banker, a Credit Suisse employee charged with mismarking mortgage-backed securities, only in April; Kareem Serageldin will be sentenced in August.

In America the federal government dedicated considerable resources to investigating fraud during the S&L crisis. William Black, a professor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and a former bank regulator involved in charging S&L executives, has testified to lawmakers that regulators have given the FBI scant help during the current crisis.

The main reason that American and British regulators give for the paucity of prosecutions is that they have struggled to connect wrongdoing lower down in the bank, such as the LIBOR scandal, to those running it. Another is that it is generally not illegal to run a bank into the ground through incompetence (although British and German policymakers are consulting on the introduction of criminal sanctions for reckless management).



Prosecuting bankers

Blind justice

Why have so few bankers gone to jail for their part in the crisis?

May 4th 2013 |From the print edition

http://www.economist.com/news/finan...ers-gone-jail-their-part-crisis-blind-justice
 
Since you posit that he broke the law, therefore he should go to jail, why don't you elaborate on why the heads of these corporations, who broke the law, (worse offenses than buying alcohol with campaign funds to be sure) didn't go to jail?

It's "that simple" right?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/nation/july-dec13/halliburton_07-26.html
http://www.salon.com/2012/12/11/hsbc_to_pay_1_9bn_to_settle_money_laundering_scandal/
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/bank-america-too-big-obey-law
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/08/07/feds-say-jpmorgan-broke-securities-laws-in-mortgage-deals/


Quite a childish reply here, for a few reasons. Saying JJJ bought alcohol with campaigns funds, that's like saying John Wayne Gacy liked to lick toes. Well of course he did but he was a cannibal serial killer. JJJ didn't buy alcohol he stole hundreds of hundreds of hundreds of thousands of dollars over an extended period. To say he merely bought alcohol is shameful.

Now as to why more of these bankers aren't in jail. Beats the pi$$ out of me, but what I know is that white people would like to see them jailed as well as anyone else. Life isn't fair. Not all speeders get caught. Every car in a DUI checkpoint does not get told to pull over. Every murderer does not get caught.
Going through life pointing fingers at everyone else who didn't get as lucky as you or who got more lucky is not healthy mentally. This is not a race issue. Its an issue of right and wrong. He stole 3/4's of a million dollars. Heck, if I could get that money for 2 1/2 years in jail I'd consider it. It would take me 10 years to make that money. Before taxes. It would take me 15 years to bring home that amount.

Most people think he got off easy. This world would be a lot better place if people looked in the mirror and said "I screwed up" instead of spinning around pointing at other people saying. " What about him? What about her?"

Sincerely

An adult response to a little kid post.
 
Quite a childish reply here, for a few reasons. Saying JJJ bought alcohol with campaigns funds, that's like saying John Wayne Gacy liked to lick toes. Well of course he did but he was a cannibal serial killer. JJJ didn't buy alcohol he stole hundreds of hundreds of hundreds of thousands of dollars over an extended period. To say he merely bought alcohol is shameful.

Now as to why more of these bankers aren't in jail. Beats the pi$$ out of me, but what I know is that white people would like to see them jailed as well as anyone else. Life isn't fair. Not all speeders get caught. Every car in a DUI checkpoint does not get told to pull over. Every murderer does not get caught.
Going through life pointing fingers at everyone else who didn't get as lucky as you or who got more lucky is not healthy mentally. This is not a race issue. Its an issue of right and wrong. He stole 3/4's of a million dollars. Heck, if I could get that money for 2 1/2 years in jail I'd consider it. It would take me 10 years to make that money. Before taxes. It would take me 15 years to bring home that amount.

Most people think he got off easy. This world would be a lot better place if people looked in the mirror and said "I screwed up" instead of spinning around pointing at other people saying. " What about him? What about her?"

Sincerely

An adult response to a little kid post.

What an inane response to my post. I don't know whether you're an ignoramus or just playing dumb to avoid my post. Nowhere in your incoherent ramblings was there anything that even approaches an acceptable response to what I posted. Now lets go over this SLOWLY so your pea-brain can comprehend what's being said.

None of your analogies were even CLOSE to the situations I've just described. These are not "speeders" that didn't get "caught". In EVERY case they were found GUILTY of FRAUD, destroying paperwork, manipulating interest rates, neglecting regulations that resulted in the DEATHS of HUNDREDS of people in order to save a few bucks. Halliburton pleaded GUILTY to destroying evidence and all they got was a fine. That's just the cost of doing business for these corporations. They should be in PRISON like the Enron execs (and even those people are supposed to get out of prison EARLY now).

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...ms-bp-for-gross-negligence-in-gulf-oil-spill/

In each of these cases a simple fine was levied on the corporations, which was equivalent to Jessie Jackson Jr. paying a small percentage of his income in fines. It'd be like a bank robber paying $3000 after he stole MILLIONS. How's that for an analogy, imbecile?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/b...estroying-evidence-after-gulf-spill.html?_r=0

GUILTY of destroying EVIDENCE! Imagine if a black person were caught destroying evidence! Why are the heads of these corporations not in jail?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ry-by-hiring-the-kids-of-chinese-politicians/

How much do you want to wager no one is jailed if found guilty of bribery?

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/11/hsbc_to_pay_1_9bn_to_settle_money_laundering_scandal/

This bank laundered $60 Trillion in drug money, TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS, and others. Who went to jail? They were GUILTY. It was PROVED via E-mail and other sources.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...th-goldman-sachs-in-aluminum-antitrust-case-1
http://dailybail.com/home/emails-prove-jpmorgan-committed-massive-mortgage-fraud.html

We'll see what happens in this aluminum anti-trust case. Another wager? I don't think you want to do it.

Now let me explain something else to you. It is a FACT that blacks are treated differently than whites in our judicial system. It's a documented FACT that many of the drug laws etc. are BLATANTLY racist. A black person using the same drug as a white person, but in a different form, will receive LOTS more prison time than a white person.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/race-and-drug-war

The Justice system also differs in the way it treats the rich banksters vs your normal, every day, middle class and poor people. The judicial system will RAILROAD poor and working people, while letting corporations and wealthy people off with a small fine.

The Scott sisters received TWO LIFE SENTENCES for stealing 11 dollars.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-papa/the-scott-sisters-two-lif_b_169468.html

MURDERERS and CANNIBALS who've KILLED PEOPLE have gotten less years in prison.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Foreman-vows-kill-sons-cannibal-murderer.html
If you're WHITE you can be a CANNIBAL and MURDER, DEVOUR, and throw a 5-year-old KID in a dresser and get out 12 years later. Able to roam free.

This is very damning of the judicial system in America. The justice system is unsympathetic to black people. They pretty much shuffle blacks through the system without a second though. They RUSH TO JUDGEMENT in dubious cases. This is well documented.

And don't pretend you speak for white people, you can't even speak for yourself adequately. So, the next time you want to respond to a comment and engage in an argument, make sure you know what you're talking about, buffoon.
 

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