Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) pleaded no contest Jan. 5 to acharge of carrying a loaded handgun in his baggage at Washington National Airport and was given a "suspended imposition of sentence."
Hinchey's lawyer, David Lenefsky, said, "We did not plead guilty to anything because we had no intent to violate any statute."
Lenefsky said that by his plea Hinchey acknowledged the hand gun was his and that he had a license to carry it in New York, but not in Virginia.
"The handgun was inadvertently in a piece of luggage I took from my upstate New York home when I drove back to Washington for the late-November congressional session, and it was still in that piece of unopened luggage on Dec. 1 when I decided to fly back to New York, "Hinchey said in a statement.
Hinchey, who voted for the anti-gun Brady Bill, appeared before Judge Joseph Gwaltney in a county district court. The judge's slap-on-the-wrist ruling means sentencing was suspended and will be lifted automatically in a year. You know what would have happened if it had been you instead of a Congressman -you'd get out of prison sometime in the Twenty-Third Century.
Oh yes. Maurice Hinchey. My parents neighbor. Funny his Hurley residency was not listed here...
http://www.dailyfreeman.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=18495707&BRD=1769&PAG=461&dept_id=74969&rfi=8
Folks all say he does good work but when you ask them what he has done, you get a blank look. Hillary like.
Wonder if his son still deals drugs?