Ney (HAVA Author) Freed After Serving 17 Months for Corruption

[Hissyspit]

Source: The Columbus Dispatch

Ney freed after serving 17 months for corruption

Saturday, August 16, 2008
By James Nash
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/08/16/NEYOUT.ART_ART_08-16-08_B4_RSB1SV9.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

Bob Ney's 2 1/2 -year sentence was reduced after he received treatment for alcoholism. Nearly two years after a federal corruption case ended both his political career and his freedom, former Ohio congressman Bob Ney is a free man again.

Ney, who represented parts of eastern and southern Ohio from 1994 until resigning in 2006, walked out of a Cincinnati halfway house at 7:30 a.m. yesterday, ending his 17 months in federal custody. He pleaded guilty in October 2006 to performing legislative favors for now-disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff in exchange for campaign contributions, fancy meals, a golfing trip to Scotland and other perks. Ney, who attributed his behavior partly to alcoholism, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison, but his sentence was shortened after he received alcohol treatment.

The six-term Republican congressman gained national attention for renaming Capitol Hill french fries as "freedom fries" in protest of France's opposition to the Iraq war, but Ney is less comfortable with the limelight as an ex-congressman and convicted felon. He has rebuffed interview requests, including several from The Dispatch, and his associates aren't talking about Ney's plans.

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Ney was the only elected official to be criminally convicted in the wide-ranging corruption case involving Abramoff's attempts to secure benefits for his lobbying clients in exchange for meals at his Washington restaurant, golf outings, skybox seats and campaign donations. Two former White House officials and nine Abramoff associates and congressional aides also have been convicted.

Read more: http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/08/16/NEYOUT.ART_ART_08-16-08_B4_RSB1SV9.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

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[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. Yeah, right,

drinking made him corrupt.

Oh, please..............

[aquart]

2. HAVA? And they let him out?

[truedelphi]

3. Got have him be a free man so that he can help with

The results come the day after the November election

[alfredo]

4. Now he can become McCain's running mate.

[Tutonic]

5. I wonder if he rolled on some of the other grifters while behind bars.

[sasquatch]

6. Ney released from halfway house

Source: Dayton Daily News

COLUMBUS — Former Ohio congressman Bob Ney has been released from a Cincinnati halfway house after serving nearly 18 months in connection with a public corruption scandal.

Ney, a Republican who served six House terms, served nearly 18 months of his original 30-month prison sentence. The sentence was reduced after he completed treatment for alcohol problems.


Read more: http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/08/17/ddn081708ney.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=16

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Yeah, you see it was under a drunken haze that he did all that ultra corrupt bullshit and became Tom Delay's cabanna boy.
:sarcasm:
What utter complete and total bullshit.

[ashling]

7. ....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8019589&mesg_id=8026164

[global1]

8. Well What's It Going To Be - Will He Have........

found Jesus or will he get a job of Fox Spews?

[Hugin]

9. Just in time to be McLame's VP choice...

The Corporate Media is no doubt all for it. He's reformed!

[Javaman]

10. Does this mean he graduated as a half wit? nt