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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFed prosecutors asking for 46-57 months jail for Chris Collins
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Tom Winter ✔ @Tom_Winter
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NEW: Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence former Rep. Christopher Collins to nearly 5 years in prison for his involvement in an insider trading scheme and for lying to the FBI.
He was the first sitting member of Congress to endorse then-candidate Trump in 2016.
Tom Winter ✔ @Tom_Winter
The sentencing guidelines are for 46 to 57 months and prosecutors are asking for the top end of that range, citing his lies.
12:47 PM - Jan 13, 2020
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Fed prosecutors asking for 46-57 months jail for Chris Collins (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Jan 2020
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OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)1. Make Trump pardon him.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)3. Manafort is still waiting for his pardon
he's been in jail since when?
Trusting Donny Dollhands was his mistake
OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)4. Trump is guaranteed to go out the door without handcuffs, there's
nothing to stop him doing it on his last day in office. And indeed to play to the yokels, it makes sense.
Ilsa
(61,707 posts)2. Unlike in a basketball game, he was given points
he really didn't want. - Paraphrased from Chuck Rosenberg.
Is Daryl Issis' story over yet, or is he to be sentenced?
brush
(53,924 posts)5. And Flynn is only getting 6 months? WTF?
Leith
(7,813 posts)6. I wondered that, too
5 years or so for a financial crime. Okay. So far so good.
But only 6 months for treason?! If he were really being used to bring down bigger fish, then where are those bigger fish? He has had more than enough time to testify. He should either give up names, dates, crimes, and whatever else he has or spend the rest of his life in prison.
Locutusofborg
(525 posts)7. Mueller offered Flynn a plea bargain deal.
But actual sentencing is up to the judge on January 26th.