Posted on 12/09/2011 5:10:58 PM PST by jazusamo
Former Prince George’s County Councilwoman Leslie E. Johnson, who followed her husband’s ambitions into politics last year, will now follow in his footsteps to prison.
Federal Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Johnson Friday to 12 months and one day in prison, despite arguments by her defense attorneys that her sentence should be downgraded to probation only.
“Mrs. Johnson, I regret to say you are not an innocent spouse, you are a complicit spouse,” Judge Messitte said. “You knew at least along the way what he was doing. You knew the money was tainted.”
Johnson also must serve two years under supervised release, perform 240 hours of community service to be decided by the judge and pay a $15,000 fine. She is to begin serving her sentence March 9 and she will be eligible for early release after 10 months.
Johnson, 60, pleaded guilty in June to charges related to a wide-ranging federal corruption probe that netted her husband, former Prince George’s County Executive Jack B. Johnson, developers and business owners in the county.
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Were it not for the Nov. 12, 2010, recorded phone conversation between the couple — in which Jack Johnson directed his wife to get rid of bribe money, including $100,000 check she flushed down the toilet and nearly $80,000 she hid in her underwear — prosecutors said Leslie Johnson, a Democrat, would still be in office.
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Lamh Foistenach Abu!
This is exactly why God invented burn-phones.
Agreed, that is just a slap on the wrist. She should have gotten at least half of what her crooked husband got, probably more.
Yep, but I believe if I’m not mistaken the feds had a wire tap going.
“LOL! Leslie had almost as much cash in her underwear as Jefferson had in his freezer.”
A trio of “Holder’s People!” “Cold Cash” Jefferson and Jack & Leslie (”It’s in the Booby Bank”) Johnson. Great folks! The kind of people we should “trust” to run our government. Glad these people are headed for stony lonesome. Maybe they will meet more of “their kind” in prison.
Right on! From what I read I guess Prince George's County is famous for it corrupt elected reps. No doubt they'll meet many of their kind in the slammer.
Former Prince George's County Councilwoman Leslie E. Johnson, who followed her husband’s ambitions into politics last year, will now follow in his footsteps to prison... 12 months and one day in prison... also must serve two years under supervised release, perform 240 hours of community service to be decided by the judge and pay a $15,000 fine... pleaded guilty in June... Were it not for the Nov. 12, 2010, recorded phone conversation between the couple -- in which Jack Johnson directed his wife to get rid of bribe money, including $100,000 check she flushed down the toilet and nearly $80,000 she hid in her underwear -- prosecutors said Leslie Johnson, a Democrat, would still be in office.Did the Demagogic Steny Hoyer have any comment about *this*?
I used to live there ... PG is just corruption layered upon corruption piled high and running over with even more corruption. It's about to collapse into a black hole of corruption so dense that nothing clean or decent can exist there ...
Probably related to Cong. Jesse Jackson Jr
I don't need a SARC tag, Do I?
PG is a DC spillover cesspool with a few leftover rednecks and blue collars types in places like Waldorf.
Corruption in Prince Gorgeous county? NO WAY!!!!!/extreme sarc
Fortunately for Waldorf, it’s in Charles County.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
I guess the judge was just being politically correct.
He would have thrown the book at a white defendant.
10 years for being fugly and that shiite eating grin
Just as Rick Blaine was in a slightly different occasion.
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