[RWR8189]

That crook got off too easy IMHO.

[pierrem15]

Should have been hung, then gibbeted.

Of course if they did that for every crooked Illinois politician, you'd be able to smell the rot all the way to Ohio.

[DAC21]

Was this the clown that was married to that hottie Actress Jeri Ryan?

[avg_freeper]

Is George Ryan related to Jack "SevenOfNine just doesn't do it for me" Ryan?

[WKUHilltopper]

If he was four feet tall, they wouldn't even send him to jail.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

People of this state expected better, and I let them down," Ryan said in a statement delivered to the courtroom before the sentencing.

You know, George, if you had had this revelation in about 1990 or so, you could have spared the state -- and yourself -- a lot of trouble.

Enjoy your retirement.

[Larry Lucido]

Growing number of CBS affiliates refusing to carry profanity laden program

How many people did this MF deprive of the right to carry arms? I'm still glad I voted for Glen Poshard.

[DonnDe]

But defense attorneys argued before U.S. District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer that even a sentence of up to 30 months could deprive Ryan, 72, of the last healthy years of his life

Works for me.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

In addition to steering state business to cronies, Ryan was convicted of gutting corruption-fighting efforts to protect political fundraising and misusing state resources for political gain.

Ryan is now trying to figure out why he's in the clinker for this while Bubba Krinton is traveling the world spending his bribe money in luxury. It all depends on who you are, Georgie-boy.

[Wings-n-Wind]

Criminal George Ryan -- DHIMMI-CRAT.... Illegal-noise...

Some of this info is conspicuous by it's absence...

[Rembrandt_fan]

The article read, "But defense attorneys argued before U.S. District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer that even a sentence of up to 30 months could deprive Ryan, 72, of the last healthy years of his life."

Yes, it would, but a betrayal of trust of this magnitude merits the 'last healthy years of his life' in trade, and even then, it isn't nearly enough. Equating bribery with treason (as I do) and making it a crime punishable by death might clear up this problem once and for all.

[Prince Charles]

Lyin' Ryan gets to spend 6 1/2 years at Club Fed in Oxford, Wisconsin. Meanwhile the 6 Willis kids get to spend eternity in Box City.

And the POS also flooded the general prison population with many convicts who deserved to be executed. He got off easy.

[river rat]

"...that even a sentence of up to 30 months could deprive Ryan, 72, of the last healthy years of his life."

Gee! Is that a fact?

That really too freaking bad...
I guess he'll have to be satisfied with all the "good years" he had while screwing the public in his "civil service" position, huh?

The crooked sonuvabitch shouldn't have done the crime, if he didn't want to do the time..

Semper Fi

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks for posting, just heard this on the radio ..

curious.. do you know if he will have to serve most of sentence , 85% , before being eligible for parole.. it's been so long since case started, I don't recall if that is the case or not.

[Utahrd]

Tim McVeigh blew up a building with a rental truck you can drive with a passenger car license.

What could a terrorist blow up with a 53 foot trailer of explosives he drives with a license he bought from Ryan?

[PGalt]

Not enough. This POS should die in prison.

[Toddsterpatriot]

He deserved more. RINO POS!

[steamroller]

this scumbag commuted some unimaginably bad people on death row whose guilt was not questionable(admittedly there some people on death row who didn't belong there but they were released without his input anyway)-i hope he ends his days in prison

[Mr. Silverback]

Not enought time. He should do five years just for what he did to all those families with his death row amnesty.

[BillyBoy]

Vote for RINOs -- they can WIN!!!!!

Illinois is soooooooooooooo much better off thanks to "leadership" Ryan provided in promoting pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-tax-and-spend, pro-enviromental wacko, pro-Castro, and of course, anti-death penalty "values" during his term. (Remember when the guy freed EVERY murderer on death row....gosh darn, it would have been sooooo much worse if a Dem had been in office, right?)

The crook's just been thrown in prison for handing out driver's licenses to illegal aliens in exchange for bribes, but it's all OKAY... cuz he has an "R" next to his name. The ILGOP should be proud to call George Ryan one of their own.

Not to worry, George Ryan's wonderful tenure in office from 1999-2003 will "bring the buisnesses back" and DELIVER Illinois to the GOP any day now. After all, he endorsed BUSH back in 2000 when he was Governor (Gore then won Illinois easily), so that automatically makes him better than ANY Democrat.

Right guys? ;-)

[DuxFan4ever]

...even a sentence of up to 30 months could deprive Ryan, 72, of the last healthy years of his life.

Too bad. He should have thought of that when he was abusing his power. IMO, since he let everyone off death row, he should be forced to face the families of the murder victims every day. That piece of crap rag we have up here the Oregonian used Ryan's emptying death row as the basis for an editorial against executions.