Steve Savicki
01-19-2007, 02:14 PM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16698187/
Former Ohio Republican Representative Bob Ney, the only member of Congress to be criminally charged in the Jack Abramoff-lobbying scandal, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison and fined $6,000 by U.S. District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle.
The Justice Department had asked for a term of 27 months in prison. The sentence was harsher than recommended by prosecutors or Ney's lawyers, Huvelle said, because Ney had violated the trust place on him as a public official. "Both your constituents and the public trusted you to represent them honestly," she said.
Ney apologized in the courtroom to his family, friends and constituents and said, "I will continue to take full responsibility, accept the consequences and battle the demons of addiction that are within me." He said, "I hope and pray that with time and love, our family can recover from the damage I have done."
<center>More Repubs are going down.
Disappointed though, I thought the article originally said 30 years.</center>
Former Ohio Republican Representative Bob Ney, the only member of Congress to be criminally charged in the Jack Abramoff-lobbying scandal, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison and fined $6,000 by U.S. District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle.
The Justice Department had asked for a term of 27 months in prison. The sentence was harsher than recommended by prosecutors or Ney's lawyers, Huvelle said, because Ney had violated the trust place on him as a public official. "Both your constituents and the public trusted you to represent them honestly," she said.
Ney apologized in the courtroom to his family, friends and constituents and said, "I will continue to take full responsibility, accept the consequences and battle the demons of addiction that are within me." He said, "I hope and pray that with time and love, our family can recover from the damage I have done."
<center>More Repubs are going down.
Disappointed though, I thought the article originally said 30 years.</center>