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ReverandRichardWayneGaryWayneGabrielle Bluestone
4/27/16 1:34pm
Yeah, child abuse is bad and all, but he’s lucky he didn’t use a private email server to communicate about government business. Because then they’d really have to nail the fucker to the wall.
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  BrooksRobinsonsGloveReverandRichardWayneGaryWayne
  4/27/16 1:47pm
  Hillary Clinton is running will be the Dem nominee and this guy is in jail.
  
  What is your complaint again?
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  ReverandRichardWayneGaryWayneBrooksRobinsonsGlove
  4/27/16 1:51pm
  Generally, the hypocricy of the right wing hate machine. Had this been a former democrat, I have no doubt there’d be a Congressional investigation into how many Democrat members of congress and staffers knew.
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BobbySeriousGabrielle Bluestone
4/27/16 1:31pm
So he got less than someone caught with drugs. Nice.
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  Vanguard KnightBobbySerious
  4/27/16 1:32pm
  He is white.
  
  What did you expect?
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  JohnnyBallfootBobbySerious
  4/27/16 1:34pm
  #whiteprivilege
  
  #greenprivilege
  
  When you are white and rich the law works differently, go figure.
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Sid and FinancyGabrielle Bluestone
4/27/16 1:28pm
This pig fucking disgusts me!

I mean, those brown sneakers with that dark suit?
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  CaptainButtersSid and Financy
  4/27/16 1:29pm
  “Mental Capacity” defense.
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  BlastProcessingSid and Financy
  4/27/16 1:29pm
  You should really do a kinja blog on fashion.
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Dave Gabrielle Bluestone
4/27/16 1:30pm
Think about this: The man 3rd in line for the Presidency for years is a serial child rapist. Also, it puts a new spin on the Mark Foley affair. But, hey, let’s impeach a guy for lying about a consensual affair.
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  BrooksRobinsonsGloveDave
  4/27/16 1:44pm
  Lying under oath. Look, I’m voting for his wife. But let’s not pretend that because this is worse what Clinton did was nothing.
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  ReverandRichardWayneGaryWayneBrooksRobinsonsGlove
  4/27/16 1:52pm
  Let’s also not forget that Clinton was put in the position of having to testify about his sex life under oath because a prosecutor with a hard on to nail Clinton and a Congress hell bent on de-legitimizing his presidency allowed an investigation into whether the Clintons made illegal land deals sprawl into an investigation of whether he got Oval Office blowies.
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PeppermintGabrielle Bluestone
4/27/16 1:39pm
I’ve posted this before but goshdarnit I’m going to post it until someone explains it: why weren’t the fraud-loss table’s enhancements applied to Hastert’s total offense level calculation?

Hastert pled to structuring fraud, so we start at §2S1.3(b) with a base offense level of 6. But that provision tells us to look at the fraud-loss tables of §2B1.1, which teach that he should get something like 14 extra levels for the amount of money (whether you calculate this as $1.4 million, the total amount, or $650,000, the amount withdrew in small increments to avoid reporting requirements) involved. Plus 2 points for obstruction of justice (as noted in the Government’s position), without any adjustment for acceptance of responsibility (as noted in the Defendant’s position). 6 + 14 + 2 =Total Offense Level of 22. Even with a Criminal History Category of I, his guideline range should have been 41-51 months.

Instead, they clearly didn’t apply the fraud-loss tables at all (so: base offense of 6, plus 2 for obstruction = Total Offense Level of 8 — combine that with a Criminal History Category of I, which explains why his guideline range was 0-6 months category, and the court threw the book at him and gave him 15 months).

tl;dr Can someone explain why the fraud-loss provisions are inapplicable?
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  Melvin Melvins 3Peppermint
  4/27/16 1:41pm
  Beltway Insiders Waiver
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  under_electriclitePeppermint
  4/27/16 1:44pm
  Low friends in high places.
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IAmNotADamnWriterGabrielle Bluestone
4/27/16 1:43pm
“...fifteen months in federal prison—longer than the government had requested...”

Then why the fuck didn’t this perv get sentenced to the max of five years instead of less than a year and a half? I don’t give a flying fuck if he’s in a wheel chair, or he’s white, or he’s a former Speaker of the House. Not supposed to be a death sentence? Why the fuck not??
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  BrooksRobinsonsGloveIAmNotADamnWriter
  4/27/16 1:49pm
  I think because on some level, the judge had to give some deference to the prosecutor’s plea bargain. If they just ignore the pleas and give the max, then they are encouraging people not to make a plea.
  
  If you blame someone, blame the prosecutors for the plea deal and not the judge. In a case like this, why not just take the case to a verdict?
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  crouching tigerIAmNotADamnWriter
  4/27/16 1:55pm
  Besides which, dying in prison is not the same as a death sentence. It’s just something that happens to elderly prisoners sometimes.
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CultureCannibalGabrielle Bluestone
4/27/16 1:26pm
Aw, that’s nice. We all agree that child molesters are the grossest fuckers on the planet, but we still want them to be comfortably housed and to not die in prison after a long lifetime of evading justice.
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  YoSup is in League with the Raccoon MenaceCultureCannibal
  4/27/16 1:32pm
  I see a lot of people complaining that the sentence is too lenient, but no one is saying what the Federal Sentencing Guidelines say or whether they should be changed.
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  RabbitRabbitYoSup is in League with the Raccoon Menace
  4/27/16 1:42pm
  The article does say the judge had the option for up to 5 years in this case. 5 years would be good, and extending the (state of Illinois, and elsewhere) statute of limitations on this charge would be good.
  
  That being said, we are responsible for prisoners’ medical status regardless of what they’ve done, and access to a good medical facility seems appropriate.
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TomatoFuckFaceGabrielle Bluestone
4/27/16 1:31pm
Statutes of limitations need to always be thrown out the window when processing child molestation cases. How can a child reasonably be expected to divulge life-shattering abuse in a manner timely enough for the state to find the allegations acceptable?
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  WhatthefoxsaysTomatoFuckFace
  4/27/16 1:53pm
  Statute of limitations are typically tolled until the child reaches 18.
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  Sluicer's ghostTomatoFuckFace
  4/27/16 2:15pm
  Can we apply that to Bill Cosby too? Can we? Can we?:
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mtdriftGabrielle Bluestone
4/27/16 1:40pm
And rocking the Wheelchair of Sympathy™ here, too, I see.

Always a solid defense strategy.
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  Sluicer's ghostmtdrift
  4/27/16 2:15pm
  No, his legs were at muscle failure wrestling a nine-year-old boy to the mat earlier in the day.
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Sean BrodyGabrielle Bluestone
4/27/16 1:30pm
“This is not meant to be a death sentence,” said Durkin, who had discretion to sentence Hastert to up to five years.

15 months. Shit. I think the prosecutor was only seeking 6 months.

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  Sluicer's ghostSean Brody
  4/27/16 2:16pm
  Well, it isn't like he was dealing drugs or something serious.
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