Posted on 04/19/2011 6:11:16 PM PDT by OddLane
Lesson: If you're NY State Comptroller and the only one who oversees the $140+ billion state pension fund, don't accept money for directing funds to certain investment firms.
Because you could end up like Alan Hevesi—71 years old with health problems and looking at one to four years in prison. City Room posted his mugshot and it's a far cry from his 2006 mugshot, where he admitted to misusing state staffers to chauffeur his sick wife around (he was a felon, but didn't get jail time).
Shortly after entering Ulster Correctional last week, Hevesi was admitted the prison infirmary. His lawyer called his one to four year sentence a possible "death sentence."
Spitzer should be rattling the bars with his cup right next to him.
Every day of your life is a possible death sentence.
So what is his lawyer whining about?
No man is promised tomorrow, and he's paying the penalty for doing stupid stuff.
The way he handled the Wallkill police department being a danger to its own community was a joke.
Cops sexually harrassing women and then intimidating the men thereof if she resisted, and he gives them pretty much a slap on the wrist?
Tells you what manner of man he is.
[I live near Wallkill. They reformed mainly due to the public embarrassment of having people call the State Police on them during traffic stops after it came to light rather than the token firings and the watchdog Spitzer appointed.]
What’s to celebrate when you have felons, corrupt ex-judges serving in US Congress, and an Usurper at 1600 Penn Ave. This fellow should have run for office. This is a little more serious than ticketing one of a ten thousand (if that) drivers for speeding. Death penalty for nothing.
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.” — William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Given the wretched state of New York State’s finances and the likely effect it is likely to have on the morale of state employees (prison guards for example), I can imagine prisoner Hevesi (Dem, NY) may well wish daily he had been given a death sentence and not the term of imprisonment he has just begun.
Perhaps there should be a “scared straight” program whereby Albany legislators and other state functionaries take required tours of the prisons to get a taste of what their greed and graft could result in.
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