Rod Blagojevich will be spending 14 years in prison. I have to confess to some surprise-- I wasn't expecting them to be so hard on him. For that matter, I was surprised when charges were brought against him. It had seemed to me, at least, like what he was accused of were things politicians did all the time, and never got into trouble. As I have said before, I am very cynical about politicians.
Maybe in Blagojevich's case, they had enough evidence this time around. Or maybe everyone was just so tired of corruption that they had had enough.
It is not as though politicians have never gotten prosecuted before... it just happens so infrequently, like CEOs getting prosecuted. Many of them haven't done anything illegal, but some of them have and get away with it routinely. Didn't the banks only get yelled at for giving the bail out money (money that was supposed to help bail out their customers) to their CEOs as bonuses?
So, as I said, I'm a bit surprised. I feel a bit bad that the state taxpayers will be supporting his existence, but something tells me they are not going to mind paying for him staying in jail. I think that something is that if it were in my state, I wouldn't mind.
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