Posted on 01/13/2020 10:38:49 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Prosecutors want former Rep. Chris Collins to go to federal prison for up to 57 months for launching an insider trading scheme with a phone call to his son from the White House lawn in June 2017.
In a new court filing Monday, prosecutors said that what Collins did merits significant punishment. Not only did Collins share secret information that allowed his son and others to dump stock at the expense of others, the then-congressman also lied about it all later to the FBI, prosecutors noted.
"Collins’s decision to break the law while making the law – a decision that he made twice, ten months apart – was brazen," wrote Geoffrey S. Berman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, in a letter also signed by several of his assistants. "A sentence at the top end of the guidelines range is necessary to assure the public that those in power do not stand above the law."
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(Excerpt) Read more at buffalonews.com ...
Lied to the lyin’ FBI?
Geoffrey S. Berman, U.S. attorney... “A sentence at the top of the range is necessary to assure the public that those in power do not stand above the law.”
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Unless you’re a democrat.
<”Collins’s decision to break the law while making the law – a decision that he made twice, ten months apart – was brazen,” wrote Geoffrey S. Berman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, in a letter also signed by several of his assistants. “A sentence at the top end of the guidelines range is necessary to assure the public that those in power do not stand above the law.”>
If this statement from the article is a basis for jailing lawmakers, what Democrat should be walking free if we apply the standard uniformly to Congress critters?
Maybe he can share a cell block with Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, James Comey, John Brennan, Adam Schiff, ad infinitum...
The excerpt didn’t say which party.
They probably assume you know which party he belongs to by the fact he was prosecuted.
I hate corruption on BOTH sides of the political isle. Throw the book a him, even though he’s a Trump supporter.
It is odd that he was a Republican was not mentioned in the first three words as usual.
This the book at him. But his treatment should be no different than any democRAT
He’s a Republican.
In related news, former Florida Dem. Rep Corrine Brown’s conviction was upheld on Friday.
Republican, upstate NY
As long as these fag “prosecutors” go after Republicans, they can continue ignoring the crimes of the leftwing nuts.
I guess only celebs are entitled to 14 day sentences and for that matter how about an FBI employee; “Mark Tolson, 60, was sentenced to seven days in jail and 50 hours of community service on Friday, even though the judge called his crime ‘very serious.’”
As long as these fag “prosecutors” go after Republicans, they can continue ignoring the crimes of the leftwing nuts.
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they’re letting bank robbers out of jail fast that they can rob another bank the same day.
california auto glass companies are getting rich from all the break ins now that theft under $1,000 is no longer a crime.
NY is giving mets tickets to crooks that show up for their court hearing.
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they need to just QUIT PUTTING ANYBODY IN JAIL UNTIL hildabeast, jihadi john, comey, shiff, clapper, obammy, bindens & kerry are prosecuted and jailed for their crimes.
So much tidier than insider trading, eh?
That said, wasn't Hillary's Cattlegate futures scam fairly easily provable insider trading?
Go pound sand dirty journalists.
What was more egregious, his crime it Hillary’s?
Like that’s never happened before.
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