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Ray Harding's obesity is big factor in light sentence for role in Hevesi pay-to-play scandal
NY Daily News ^
| May 19th 2011
| Michael Daly
Posted on 05/19/2011 1:21:23 PM PDT by lowbridge
The fat rat sat chatting in the courtroom hallway Wednesday morning, looking not at all like a guy about to be sentenced for stealing $800,000.
The reason became clear when he entered the 13th-floor courtroom to face Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Lewis Bart Stone.
Thirteen proved to be the luckiest of numbers for the onetime Liberal Party boss when Stone gave Ray Harding a conditional discharge.
That means not a minute in jail.
And, Harding did not even have to give back the $800,000 he pocketed as a supposed middleman between state pension funds and investment firms.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: newyork; ny
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posted on
05/19/2011 1:21:28 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
To: lowbridge
The reason is: They’re Democrats. That’s all you need to know.
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posted on
05/19/2011 1:25:01 PM PDT
by
andonte
To: andonte
And as Jim Quinn says .. “With democrats ... it’s .... different”
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posted on
05/19/2011 1:27:13 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: lowbridge
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posted on
05/19/2011 1:31:38 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: lowbridge
“...a guy about to be sentenced for stealing $800,000...”
Simply a minor inconvenience...
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posted on
05/19/2011 1:32:07 PM PDT
by
choctaw man
(Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
To: lowbridge
NY state is really giving Illinois a run for it's money for cultivating blatant corruption. I am surprised that this writer wasn't tempted to use the term "Fat Cat" in his reporting. It seemed like low hanging fruit.
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posted on
05/19/2011 1:32:35 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: andonte
Exactly. Fat or skinny, he got off because he’s a liberal in a liberal city.
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posted on
05/19/2011 1:55:16 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
(Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
To: lowbridge
So how many Stone did the fat rat weigh.
To: lowbridge
and NewYork takes another one in the........
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posted on
05/19/2011 3:36:19 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: andonte
Harding was NOT a Democrat. He was chairman of the New York State Liberal Party, which is NO longer a recognized political party in New York State.
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posted on
05/20/2011 10:09:43 AM PDT
by
NEW YORKCITYGOPMAN
('he who creates something worthwhile, never dies.'')
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