Well, it’s not 27-33, but 62 year old scumbag “Dollar Bill” Jefferson will be spending the next 13 years of his worthless life in prison.


Former congressman  William J. Jefferson was sentenced to 13 years in prison Friday for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, the longest prison term ever handed down to a member of Congress convicted of corruption charges.

The sentence for the Lousiana Democrat fell far short of the 27 to33 years suggested under federal sentencing guidelines, are commendation endorsed by prosecutors. But it exceeded the previous record for congressional corruption: the eight-year and four-month prison term that former congressman Randall “Duke” Cunningham(R-Calif.) received in 2006 for taking bribes from defense contractors.

Jefferson’s case was made famous by the $90,000 in what prosecutors said was bribe money that the FBI found stuffed into his freezer and a legal battle over the raid of his Washington office, a battle that reached the highest levels of the U.S. government. He was convicted in August in U.S. District Court in Alexandria of 11 counts that included bribery, racketeering and money laundering. Jurors acquitted Jefferson of five counts.

I think violating the public’s trust – the public who put you in power in the first place and paid you their tax dollars to represent them honorably in government – should merit a little more time in prison, and perhaps a refund of the public’s money, as well as a hefty fine and a denial of all the normal benefits that Congressmen receive when they leave office (at least ones who haven’t been caught with their grimy paws in the cookie jar).

I wouldn’t be averse to some public flogging either.

But I’ll take the 13 years. Maybe when he finally gets out at the ripe old age of 75, he’ll be too old and feeble to cause any more damage.

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