“Prosecutors pushed for a year in prison, but U.S. District Court Judge Thomas B. Russell shaved that time in half.”
Hmmmm. . . . Prosecutors asked for only a year in prison for stealing $74,000 and destroying an investigation. Then the judge decides to only give him 6 months. Perhaps an investigation of the prosecutors and judge are in order.
I bet you or me would have gotten a much longer sentence than 6 months, more like 10 years!