'Pillowcase Robber' gets 184 years

[DELUSIONAL]

'Pillowcase Robber' gets 184 years

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/231975_robber09.html

U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly yesterday sentenced a 41-year-old Auburn man -- dubbed by the FBI as the "Pillowcase Robber" -- to 184 years in federal prison.

Ivy Bird Gaines was found guilty of 18 felony counts stemming from a string of takeover-style bank robberies in which guns were pointed at tellers. Gaines robbed 10 banks, credit unions and check cashing businesses between Seattle and Lacey from June 7, 2002, to Oct. 17, 2003, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The length of his sentence is a result of seven mandatory-minimum, consecutive sentences of 25 years each for using a gun in the robberies.

Bank robberies are terrible -- I am not condoning this person's behavior. HOWEVER, had he been a CEO -- like Kenny Boy Lay -- and not used a gun -- but none the less robbed a a whole lot of people and a few states. Lay will probably get a few years and he will manage to keep a whole lot of his ill gotten goods. Bushie will probably pardon Kenny Boy -- the millions that Kenny put into Bushie's political campaigns should be worth something. <sarcasm>

Lesson -- Robbing banks is real STUPID -- but robbing corporations and raiding pension funds -- AND give GOPig politicians money to run their political campaigns -- now that is a real SMART way to steal money.

It will probably cost tax payers more to keep the Bank Robber in jail for the rest of his life than he probably stole from the banks. But then he did terrify bank employees and customers -- and THAT is the crime. IMHO

[Journeyman]

1. "A lawyer can steal more with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns."

-- The Godfather, Don Vito Corleone

[the_spectator]

2. Plus, any boy growing up with the name

"Ivy" is going to have Major Issues one way or another. Cut him some slack! :shrug:

[CaliTeacher]

3. Good point

The double standard is pretty disgusting. Forget bank robbing, there are many doing more time for marijuana possession than Lay will do for his massive theivery.

[Emerson]

4. The difference between ken and these crimes is the level of violence

I do not believe the court system should consider the amount of money stolen (in any amount) more serious than pointing a gun at someone in an armed robbery. It devalues life in that the legislature would consider stolen money more deserving of a longer sentence than pointing a gun at someone in an armed robbery.

Ken lay is highly unlikely to shoot someone when he is back on the street. Further, lay will never be trusted again. The individual in this story is highly likely to injure/kill if out of jail.

Some would like to put stolen large sums of money on the level of armed robbery. I do not.

[DELUSIONAL]

5. Kenny boy probably is responsible for deaths

by people who couldn't afford to pay the inflated energy costs.

He also stole people's future -- their pensions -- and perhaps lives were lost this way.

Ken Lay should have everything stripped from him -- and let him survive on Social Security and Medicare. THAT would fit his crime -- rather than the taxpayers paying for his time in one of the Fed Meds.

[Emerson]

7. While it is very possible he is responsible for deaths

He is certainly not responsible for putting a gun in a persons face and pulling the trigger - which is an entirely seperate level.

[jjstopes]

6. Maybe...

[quote]It will probably cost tax payers more to keep the Bank
Robber in jail for the rest of his life than he probably stole
from the banks. But then he did terrify bank employees and
customers -- and THAT is the crime. IMHO[quote]



You are right, how about a floor to sleep on and bread and
water to eat?   Either prisoners have rights or they dont.  If
they do, don't complain about the cost - if they dont - dont
scream about the rights of prisoners.



The man is a bank rober, he should rot.


If you scream about how CEO's make so much money or steal so
much money - you better look around your house, im sure you
put a few dollars in those pockets of those CEO's you hate so
much


Boycott and they should go to jail too... 2 wrongs dont
justify..