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OfflineSirTripAlot
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Goodbye, Ryan!
    #6035383 - 09/06/06 03:27 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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Former Ill. governor sentenced to 6 years


CHICAGO - Former Gov. George Ryan, who was acclaimed by capital punishment foes for suspending executions in Illinois and emptying out death row, was sentenced to 6 years in prison Wednesday in the corruption scandal that ended his political career.

"People of this state expected better, and I let them down," the 72-year-old Ryan said in court before hearing his sentence.

Federal prosecutors had asked for a sentence of eight to 10 years. Defense attorneys told U.S. District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer that even a sentence of 2 years would deprive Ryan of the last healthy years of his life.

Ryan was convicted in April of racketeering conspiracy, fraud and other offenses for taking payoffs from political insiders in exchange for state business while he was Illinois secretary of state from 1991 to 1999 and governor for four years after that. The verdict capped Illinois' biggest political corruption trial in decades.


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Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
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Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

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Re: Goodbye, Ryan! [Re: SirTripAlot]
    #6035636 - 09/06/06 05:02 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

for politicians, there is a very fine line between business as usual and six years in prison.


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Re: Goodbye, Ryan! [Re: SirTripAlot]
    #6040769 - 09/08/06 09:08 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Politicians and anyone governamental who breaks the law deserves death. They are the very people trusted to uphold and set proper examples. Its treasonous, they betray their office and the people who put them there.


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Re: Goodbye, Ryan! [Re: nakors_junk_bag]
    #6041206 - 09/08/06 12:15 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

I like the treason charge! but not death penalty for corruption without foreign interaction.


Good luck getting politicians to hold themselves to the fire.

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Re: Goodbye, Ryan! [Re: SirTripAlot]
    #6041954 - 09/08/06 05:27 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

That fat bastard got off easy.
People died because of him.

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Re: Goodbye, Ryan! [Re: MushmanTheManic]
    #6041972 - 09/08/06 05:34 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

You are right....



(CBS) CHICAGO When George Ryan faces sentencing, the testimony is certain to be quite emotional.

CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine spoke the Rev. Scott Willis, who believes corruption in Ryan’s office played a major role in the deaths of his six children. Willis now wants to tell his story to the judge, with the former governor in the court room forced to listen.

“We would probably have preferred a one-on-one with the governor, but it wasn't to be,” Willis said in a phone interview Thursday evening.

The Willis family’s attorney, who represented them in a civil case, believes it’s important that Willis be heard.

“It puts a face on public corruption and the need for accountability when it’s allowed to occur,” attorney Joseph Power said.

Twelve years ago, Willis' children died in a fiery inferno on Interstate 94 outside Milwaukee, when their family van was struck by a mudguard assembly that broke off the truck in front of them.

Investigators found unqualified truck driver Ricardo Guzman illegally bought his Illinois license when Ryan was still Illinois Secretary of State; part of a scheme that ultimately funneled cash to Ryan's campaign.

“By giving him a license, letting him pay a bribe in order to get is license, that was the first step in this tragedy for which Mr. Ryan is ultimately accountable as secretary of state,” Powers said.

For his part, Willis said it was difficult to forgive the former governor, who has maintained his innocence even after the verdict.

"I think the incident of squashing the investigation was done willfully, that was a criminal act,” Willis said in June.

When asked if he could forgive Ryan, Willis said, "I can absolutely." When asked if he has, Willis said, "Well, forgiveness comes with admission."

U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer said she's inclined to let Willis speak for 15 minutes. But defense attorneys want written statements only, arguing Willis’ testimony could be inflammatory.

Legal analyst Irv Miller said that “for the Willises to testify five minutes before the judge is to impose a sentence in the case is an extremely prejudicial, gut wrenching type of evidence that's going to have an effect on any normal person and certainly would have an effect on Judge Pallmeyer.”

But the Willises said their goal is not more jail time for Ryan.

“That’s up to the judge,” Rev. Willis told Levine Thursday evening. “We'll accept whatever the judge decides, and [our goal] is more information… just getting out our heart what we want to say, not trying to influence the judge. “

Judge Pallmeyer is expected to rule Friday on whether Willis can testify at the sentencing, one week from today.

Late Thursday afternoon, Ryan's lawyers asked the judge to sentence him to just 30 months in prison.

Ryan's lawyers urged Pallmeyer to give the former governor a break when she sentences him, saying he is old and sick and "has been publicly and universally humiliated."

"The public shaming that Ryan has endured combined with the impending loss of his pension greatly lessens the need for the court to punish through the sentencing process," Ryan's lawyers said in court papers.

They said the 72-year-old Ryan has reached "advanced age" and if given a sentence like the six-year term his top aide received for a similar conviction "it is highly likely that he will die in prison."

"It is not necessary to impose a life sentence to reflect the seriousness of the offense," they told Pallmeyer.

Ryan was convicted April 18 along with a longtime friend, businessman Larry Warner, of engaging in corruption when he was secretary of state and later governor. The verdict followed a 7-month trial.

The husky-voiced one-time Kankakee pharmacist who rose to become the state's most powerful politician was convicted of every count against him -- racketeering conspiracy, mail fraud, tax fraud, and lying to FBI agents.

Ryan was accused in the indictment of steering lucrative contracts to Warner and other insiders, using taxpayer dollars for his campaign and acting to kill investigations that could have uncovered corruption.

He still denies the allegations and says he did nothing illegal.

The trial was the climax of an eight-year investigation that has resulted in the conviction of 75 state employees, lobbyists, drivers licensing officials, driving instructors and others. No one was acquitted.

Ryan's lawyers said he should get a light sentence in part because he suffers from Crohn's disease, diabetes and diverticulitis and has multiple risk factors for heart disease including high cholesterol.

"Even a sentence of no more than 30 months could take away the last healthy years of his life," they said. They said stress resulting from the case also represents a danger to his health


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“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

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