Ex-Bush Aide Gets 30 Months For Stealing $600K

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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/03/former_bush_aide_gets_30_months_in_prison.php

Former Bush aide gets 30 months in prison

Former Bush aide gets 30 months for stealing from Cuban democracy advocates

Staff
AP News

Mar 18, 2009 09:33 EST

A former Bush White House aide was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for stealing nearly $600,000 from a government program that promotes democracy in Cuba.

Felipe Sixto apologized Wednesday for stealing from the Center for a Free Cuba. He had pleaded guilty Dec. 19 to theft.

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton sentenced him to 30 months in prison, three years supervised release and fined him $10,000.

Sixto quit his job as a special assistant to President George W. Bush for intergovernmental affairs almost a year ago after learning that the center was beginning legal action against him.

Sixto worked as the center's chief of staff before moving to the White House. He acknowledged overcharging the organization more than $579,000 when purchasing radios and flashlights with federal funds. His lawyer said 90 percent of the money had been paid back to the center.

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1. Golly, didn't Dubya just have the worst luck?

I mean, who could have foreseen that so many of his appointees would turn out to be crooks, embezzlers, thieves, con men, and worse? A more cynical person than I might actually impute a portion of so much brazen lawlessness to the guys at the top of the Bush administration, not excluding the president himself.

I sure hope someone comes on my teevee soon to tell me again what a great guy George W. Bush was and is, and how in the centuries to come, he'll be remembered as a mediocrity, not an out-and-out brigand who lied, cheated and stole his way to high office.

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2. Thank God he wasn't..

caught with a joint!

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3. I wonder if there Is a way to update this list

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http://www.republicanoffenders.com/