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WASHINGTON (CNN)—Former U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, who left office just before the midterm November elections for his role in a congressional bribery scandal, was sentenced Friday to 30 months in jail.
The judge said Ney’s actions were a “significant, serious abuse of the public trust.”
Prosecutors had said they would seek a prison term of up to 27 months and $60,000 in fines at sentencing; Ney’s lawyers had asked U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle for no more than two years in prison for their client. The Ohio Republican pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit fraud, deprive his constituents of honest service and violate his former chief of staff’s one-year lobbying ban; and a second count of making false statements to the House.
I hope he enjoys his new digs, and has a big effeminate cell-mate named Bubba. It’s schmucks like Ney who lost Republicans the last election.
