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He will be out in 7. 7 years in a country club won't be bad. I'd go for 1 year if he was put in general population.

William Jefferson should have gotten the 150 years in prison.

what a joke! there really are two systems of justice in this country; one for those who have connections (the rich and powerful), and the other for those of us who live in the real world. and people wonder why so few trust any politicians.

Interesting; no mention that this man is a democrat, because we all know that democrats don't do any wrong, right? C'mon cnn, let's be fair about this.

No problem here with Jefferson's sentence - no man is above the law!

But......as an "aside" and I know this doesn't apply to the article here, but it's what came to my mind while I was reading about Jefferson. I got up and went to get our local newspaper from today and I'm quoting an article there: "Since 2000, Lieberman (Senator Joe, of course.....my words) has scooped up $800,000 from the insurance industry. His wife worked for a health care lobbying firm."

My question is - what's the difference in these two crimes?

Go righties, attack!!!

If Holder can get away with it why not Jefferson?

I am sure all this happened because he is black and when he goes to prison and adds to the number of blacks incarcerated it will be because of racial profiling and unjust treatment of minorities.

Wow, this guy really is a DEMOCRAT, who knew?

Maybe Jefferson's got it right, instead of trying to regulate banks and their unfair practices, we should just get rid of them and keep our money in freezers instead, no overdraft fee there, stays fresher too!

Sheisty creep should join creeps like Cunnigham and Ted Stephens in the ever expanding federal jail of corrupt Congress taking bribes. They really need to ban Congress from serving as lobbyists after leaving office and crack down on fundraising methods which invite such underhanded deals.

Before everyone starts with the whole republician culture of corruption, all republicians are evil, etc.....This guy is a democrat

WHAT?? Not a bad democrat, couldn't be, must be a republican in discuise.

Let just one of them get off and Barack Obama is wasted..

If this guy was a Democrat in IL....he'd be president by now.

150 years......Isn't that how long we'll be in debt after the passing of so called health care reform?

This guy is dirt and should be locked up for the rest of his life. Betraying the public trust is in my opinion a crime that stands above almost all others and the only way to get corruption out of government is to punish it swiftly and severely.

Is this supposed to be a harsh sentence? In my book this is a slap on the wrist unless he serves the entire 13 years behind bars in a non-country club setting. Corruption at these levels need to be punished with LONG sentences and fofeiture of property and wealth illegally attained.

Now let's start investigating the rest of the Democrat Culture of Corruption. They might have to build a new prison to hold them all!

This should quiet the conservative masses (all 7 of them) about Democrats who break the law not serving time ... they rightfully join Abramoff, Cunningham etc ...

I hope they get a double-wide for him so Christopher Dodd and Barney Frank can join him. Well, maybe he won't want Barney in the same cell.