15 months?! Blago got 16 years and did far less!!
As someone who’s married to a sexual abuse survivor and knowing first hand the extensive damage it does to the victims, I am sickened to my stomach. I work across the street from dirksen federal plaza and I’m going there right now!
He hasn’t been charged with any sexual abuse.... understand he’s been convicted of simply withdrawing money in lots smaller than 10,000 to keep the bank from filing paperwork with the fed... that’s it.
They are using this to try to seek punishment for other crimes he has neither been charged with or convicted of, because the statute of limitations are up on them.
I am not excusing Hassert for his alleged abuse, but this whole thing is a perversion of the legal system in my mind.