Thieves amongst us

MoonHowler

Sentencing has been postponed for one Maneesh Gupta, age 47 for embezzling millions of dollars from Prince William County while he was the head of the IT Department in Prince William County government.

Insidenova.com:

Gupta was set to be sentenced Thursday, but the sentencing was continued to Nov. 3.

At Thursday’s hearing, Prince William Circuit Court Judge Richard B. Potter formally accepted a plea agreement in the case.

According to the terms of the agreement, Gupta will be sentenced to serve three years in prison, with another 48 years suspended and 10 years of probation and to repay $3.7 million the county lost in the scheme.

Prosecutors said Gupta and three other men created a company and arranged for most of the OIT office’s bids to be awarded to that company, between 2004 and April 2009.

I am offended.  3 years?  48 suspended?  Why?  $3.7 million bucks is a lot of money.  How about 20 years for being a thief and if his relatives repay the money he took, then he gets to come out after 20 years.  I think he got slapped on the wrist.  How long does he have to repay the money he took?  What happens if he doesn’t?  Will he go back to prison?

This dude has always managed to find a way to find a short cut.  I feel confident he will find a way to never repay that money. I hope the County has a back up plan.

 

A quick refresher course

MoonHowler

It isn’t all innocent and well-meaning. I see about every form of presidential mockery I can think of. There is Che Obama, Hitler Obama, Liar Obama, Treasonist Obama, Socialist Obama, Traitor Obama, Thief Obama, Joker Obama, Butt Obama….so many Obamas!!

And yes, the signs are  all protected by free speech. No one said free speech has to be n good taste.  The point of this short review is to bring back a few memories regarding behavior.  No one was arrested, to my knowledge.  No one stormed a bridge.  This group seemed a little old for bridge stormin’.  Perhaps in their younger days.  The messages, however, were just as pointed and perhaps even more condemning.

Much of Friday was spent here with TPP trying to convince the readership that the TP was somehow more dignified and better behaved than the OWS crowd.  That is probably true.  I wasn’t really thinking of comparisons for real.  Perhaps I should have.  I still want to sit back and observe the OWS.  The Republicans have already begun the words game of vilifying them and defining them.  Far Left, dirty, socialist, Let’s wait and see.  Right now this TP demonstration isn’t giving me a warm fuzzy either.  I wouldn’t want to have to spend any time around either crowd.