Anti-Gun Ex-State Senator Sentenced for What Else? Gun Trafficking
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MICHAEL T
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He will be out in less than 2 and will go to a nice fed relaxing vacation type prison .
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Actually the gun charges were thrown out as part of the settlement. He only plead out on the lesser abuse of office charges. He'd have spent numerous lifetimes in prison if he had been charged with individual counts for each of the 2.5m dollars worth of military grade guns he was trying to smuggle into the country.
Just so the casual reader who doesn't click on the news article knows, this guy was conspiring with a muslim terrorist organization in the phillipines to smuggle weapons into the united states... Who do you think the domestic recipients of a foreign muslim terrorist organization are going to do with those guns?
Just so the casual reader who doesn't click on the news article knows, this guy was conspiring with a muslim terrorist organization in the phillipines to smuggle weapons into the united states... Who do you think the domestic recipients of a foreign muslim terrorist organization are going to do with those guns?
jerkface11
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5 years for supplying military weapons to terrorists. I bet he has good dirt on somebody.
RPRNY
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Attempting to smuggle automatic weapons and missiles from a designated terrorist organization, the Moro Liberation Front, is dropped. Because the important objective is to take away the rights of law abiding gun owners, not to punish the law breakers.
ClickClickD'oh
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Just goes to show, there's rules for us, and there's rules for them.
JR47
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He should have been charged with the weapons violations. However, getting the current DOJ to do anything but talk, and "investigate" small players, is futile.
All the more reason to vote these career politicians out of office. Note, as well, that the national media merely shrugged at this, and it might have made a 5 second sound byte.
All the more reason to vote these career politicians out of office. Note, as well, that the national media merely shrugged at this, and it might have made a 5 second sound byte.
mokin
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I heard this on the radio the other day. Of all places it was on NPR. I figured it would be swept under the rug even more quietly than that.
Where's the outrage?
Where's the outrage?
aarondhgraham
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This from a California legislator,,,
This from a California legislator,,,
Where is the angry outcry to crucify him?
I figured the liberal Cali population would want his head on a plate?
But no,,,
They are oblivious to reality.
Aarond
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This from a California legislator,,,
Where is the angry outcry to crucify him?
I figured the liberal Cali population would want his head on a plate?
But no,,,
They are oblivious to reality.
Aarond
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TruthTellers
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The Dear Leader will pardon him his last day in office. He'll end up serving less than s fifth of what he's been sentenced to.
Liberty and justice for all folks.
Liberty and justice for all folks.
TimSr
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I was about to say that this was old news, but apparently its just now got through the courts. I guess they wanted to wait until the news of it blew over. Keep in mind, this guys was not an EX at the time the crimes were committed.
5 years is what they give to a 2nd offense DUI who doesn't kill anybody. At least he had to resign, though I'm sure he still gets his pension. Eric Holder got to keep his job when he did it.
5 years is what they give to a 2nd offense DUI who doesn't kill anybody. At least he had to resign, though I'm sure he still gets his pension. Eric Holder got to keep his job when he did it.
danez71
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He's one of them that only fell prey to the evils of guns. .... it wasn't his fault.
He needs to have sympathy for he has served the public for decades.
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He should have gotten longer but instead.... he admitted to accepting 40k in bribes but only got fined 20k.
I hope the reason he got off easy is that he's snitched on his fellow politicians.
What a crock, fined $20,000 for taking $40,000 in bribes. The fine for taking bribes should be 10X and 20 years in prison. That is why I have NO Faith in the judicial sytem. The laws are stacked against a citizen while the overseers get away with a slpa on the wrist.
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Ha! He'd be dead right now were that the case. It's Chinatown rules, after all. No, he snitched on the lowlife thug triad/terrorist dudes to secure his outrageously minor sentence, not the gatekeepers charged with rebuffing the endless hordes of identical lowlife thugs/terrorists. Much more important to implicate the Mafia Don rather than the Mayor who holds his leash, after all
.Nope, the story we'll hear is that this was an isolated incident of official corruption, extending no further into the (Feinstein) political machine he worked in than himself, and including only this single collection of terrorists/thugs. No chance at all of a culture of corruption involving God knows how many officials more senior, from here to Newark (the ostensible port of entry for the machine guns and rocket launchers, btw) all owing allegiance to the same tax-exempt crime family, and bringing who knows how much contraband into the nation for personal reward.
Rather interesting that a state senator was directly responsible for facilitating the import for an indeterminate volume of explosives and powerful illegal weaponry (which one would hope constituted the bulk of the actual contraband that makes it over each year), at roughly the same time as the Bureau charged with enforcing our gun (tax) laws was directly responsible for facilitating the illegal export of a significant portion of the weaponry used by Mexican drug cartels (I say 'significant' because they sure keep showing up frequently, for being a supposed 'tiny' fraction of the whole), and our federal government supplying an even greater volume through official diplomatic assistance which was expected to and did seep into cartel armories.
Makes one think; the enemy being whoever is trying to get you killed, and all...
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Speedo66
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Politicians go easy on their brethren that get caught, they figure it's just part of doing business, and they may be next.
Always keep in mind judges, whether they're appointed or elected, are nothing but politicians with a law degree.
Always keep in mind judges, whether they're appointed or elected, are nothing but politicians with a law degree.
Deog
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The fact he was able to plea down and make the arms trafficking ( international at that ) vanish is disgusting. People are doing far more hard time for far less . The system does not work.
1911 guy
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Another fine example of why it's called the "legal system". Justice seldom figures into it. Justice would be making little rocks out of big rocks until he croaks. Conspiring against the citizens of one's own country used to be called treason.
472x1A/B
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This scumbag will get sent right to Lompoc minimum security prison, there in Calif. along with all the other rich scum.
Speedo66
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Is that the one they called Club Fed?
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Michael T is right. Less than two years. Here's how CA works:
1) Deduct 1/3rd time for good/work.
2) Deduct over 1 year for credit for time served.
3) Deduct court days.
4) Parole.
He'll do a little over a year and then be released on Parole.
1) Deduct 1/3rd time for good/work.
2) Deduct over 1 year for credit for time served.
3) Deduct court days.
4) Parole.
He'll do a little over a year and then be released on Parole.
larry_minn
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` I wish I could be shocked and amazed that such a light sentence could be given...
Sadly I am not. Folks who made minor mistakes in following changing laws have gotten punished more.
Sadly I am not. Folks who made minor mistakes in following changing laws have gotten punished more.
Capybara
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For those of you who don't know Leland Yee was our arch-nemesis in this state, the author of numerous anti-gun bills, none of which made it into law, but makes the irony that much richer. Brady Center Lackey sentenced for what should have been international arms smuggling to Islamic Terrorists. The system is so beyond rigged, especially in this state.
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