Posted on 11/06/2009 4:14:43 PM PST by Libloather
Jefferson's criminal sentencing, bankruptcy hearing a month apart
By Jonathan Tilove
November 03, 2009, 6:52AM
Former Rep. William Jefferson will face sentencing Nov. 13 on 11 counts of federal public corruption.
But it will not be the last court hearing this fall for Jefferson.
On Dec. 9, if he is still a free man, Jefferson is due to appear before Judge Jerry A. Brown in United States Bankruptcy Court in New Orleans to argue that he and his wife should be able to keep their wedding rings and that his family has the right to hold onto one of his guns.
The stakes for Jefferson in December pale in comparison to what he faces in 10 days when he stands before U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, a no-nonsense judge who already has meted out stiff sentences to supporting players in the case. Prosecutors are expected to ask for a sentence of more than 20 years.
But the simultaneous denouements of Jefferson's criminal and financial proceedings, offer a painfully humbling portrait of the descent of a once commanding figure in New Orleans and Louisiana political and public life into insolvency and incarceration, perhaps for the rest of his life. Jefferson is 62.
Jefferson did not testify at his trial and has had little to say about the weeks of damning testimony, much of it delivered by former friends, employees and allies, that led to his conviction.
But at a bankruptcy hearing in New Orleans Oct. 2, with Michael Chiasson, the trustee named by the court to sort through the Jeffersons' financial affairs, there were moments of poignancy, none more so than when Chiasson asked Jefferson about $39,727 he received earlier this year.
It came, Jefferson explained to Chiasson, from a "Celebration of Service,"
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A tax exempt pooch?
Well take his guns for sure. Wouldn’t want a broke, disgruntled former Congressman running around with a boomstick.
Then you remember that this sleazy, dirt bag politician has taken and squandered millions on the backs of the taxpayers he was robbing, cheating and lying to. He voted against America every chance he had while picking her pockets and denouncing her virtues.
May he rot in peace in his little cinder block cell.
Well, he’s history in the dim party. Who knew he had guns?? Can’t do that if you’re a libtard
Turns out I was wrong.
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