re: #333 ObserverArt

So, a total of 6.75 years in prison for the federal crimes.

He’s getting off easy. It will be tough for this asshole to endure the time, but when you consider what he did and what happens to ordinary folks in America it is not really fair to the people of this country.

I guess everyone needs to slick up in a nice suit and tie before you rob a bank, sell drugs, or cheat on your own taxes. And make sure you have some good power connections.

Our system is broken, perhaps beyond repair. Of course, wealthy white men escaping justice is nothing new. It is infuriating beyond words that they routinely commit financial crimes but are never investigated because it’s too much work. Manafort should have been in prison years ago — Trump should have been in prison years ago — but they are not the exception, they are the rule. Leona Helmsley (of “only little people pay taxes” fame) only had to serve 19 months in prison, out of a 16 year sentence for income tax evasion. And she was caught because she stiffed contractors — a crime that Trump repeatedly committed with impunity.