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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Yeah, the thing about the 5 months vs. a year was in the article.
Jesus fucking christ, though, that kind of pisses me off. All kinds of kids who get fucked because both parents go to jail and there's no money to cushion it -- and fat cats get to spread out their time so that their poor pampered baby kiddies don't have to pick which felon parent to visit in prison over the weekend. Fucking Fastows should have thought about their kids before they went and committed felonies.
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How many instances are you aware of in which a husband and wife commit a violent crime, are both convicted (or plead) and are sentenced concurrently? And in how many instances was one of those sentences less than a year?
Seems to me that you're complianing about a very small set of cases of violent crime. I doubt such an arrangement would have been contemplated if they had both be sentenced to a lot of time.
BTW, can you honestly say you would be equally worried about kids' living with their violent parents or with the Fastows? Methinks there are costs, as opposed to benefits, of depriving the children of their parents in this case.
None of this is to say, however, that everyone involved shouldn't have gotten more time and bigger asset forfeitures.
