Cold Cash Jefferson get 13 years

Friday the 13th was not Cold Cash's lucky day according to the NY Times:

Former Representative William J. Jefferson, a New Orleans Democrat whose political career once seemed to hold high promise, was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for using his office to try to enrich himself and his relatives.

The sentence was far less than recommended by prosecutors, who had sought at least 27 years. Mr. Jefferson, 62, who was convicted on Aug. 5 of bribery, racketeering and money laundering involving business ventures in Africa, might have had to spend the rest of his life behind bars with such a sentence, since there is no parole in the federal prison system, and the only leniency is 15 percent off for good behavior.

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Maybe he was lucky not to get the 27 years the prosecutors wanted. He does represent the arrogance that infects the Democrat culture of corruption that has been largely bottled up in an ethics process that moves at a glacial pace and never really dealt with Cold Cash. The swamp has not yet been drained.

BTW, I do give the NY Times credit for putting Cold Cash's party affiliation in the first sentence of the story.