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malaise

(269,022 posts) Fri Feb 20, 2015, 03:10 PM Feb 2015

McDonnell's wife got a year and a day

They both got off light

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McDonnell's wife got a year and a day (Original Post) malaise Feb 2015 OP

They're politicians. Calista241 Feb 2015 #1

Should have been the full 18 months. HappyMe Feb 2015 #2

Neither will spend a day in prison. IOKIFAR FSogol Feb 2015 #3

This is fairly typical in these sorts of charges. MohRokTah Feb 2015 #4

Calista241

(5,586 posts)

1. They're politicians.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Feb 20, 2015, 03:19 PM

Feb 2015

Did you really expect anything else?

HappyMe

(20,277 posts)

2. Should have been the full 18 months.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Feb 20, 2015, 03:20 PM

Feb 2015

They both got off lightly.

FSogol

(45,488 posts)

3. Neither will spend a day in prison. IOKIFAR

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Feb 20, 2015, 03:21 PM

Feb 2015

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)

4. This is fairly typical in these sorts of charges.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Feb 20, 2015, 03:48 PM

Feb 2015

By comparison, Jesse Jackson Jr. got 30 months and his wife got the same sentence as McDonnell's wife, 12 months and 1 day.

And the "prison" is more like a country club they cannot leave for a few months.

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