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   Here’s a name that’s something of a blast from the past. Those   
   of you who have been following political corruption stories for   
   a while will likely recall the tale of former Pennsylvania   
   Congressman Chaka Fattah. It’s been a while since his name has   
   been in the news. In fact, the last time I wrote about him was   
   back in December of 2016 when he was sentenced to the longest   
   stretch in prison of any member of Congress in the history of   
   the country. Fattah was given a ten-year sentence for stealing   
   millions of dollars in both taxpayer money and funds designated   
   for charitable causes. He was only halfway through his time in   
   the crowbar motel, but this week he was quietly released from   
   the slammer with no explanation being given for this generous   
   maneuver by the federal Bureau of Prisons. (Free Beacon)   
      
   The United States Bureau of Prisons released a disgraced   
   Democratic ex-congressman Thursday without explaining why he   
   should not be out of prison with more than five years left on   
   his sentence.   
      
   Former Pennsylvania representative Chaka Fattah was convicted on   
   charges of bribery and corruption connected to his failed   
   Philadelphia mayoral campaign, in which he accepted an illegal   
   $1 million loan. But the Bureau of Prisons has not offered an   
   explanation for the release, according to the Philadelphia   
   Inquirer.   
      
   Fattah’s time in Congress came to an end in 2016 when he, along   
   with several associates, was indicted on federal racketeering   
   and influence peddling charges.   
      
   The most obvious guess is that the threat of spreading the novel   
   coronavirus in the prison was the rationale used to justify   
   releasing Fattah. As much as it may rankle people, if we assume   
   that was the reason for knocking half of his sentence off, it   
   was at least consistent with the policies being pushed in   
   Philadelphia. They’re supposedly keeping the more violent and   
   dangerous prisoners behind bars, while booting out those who   
   were guilty of less physically dangerous offenses. Since   
   Fattah’s crimes were strictly of the white-collar variety, I   
   suppose one could make an argument in his favor.   
      
   But that doesn’t make it any easier of a pill to swallow. Keep   
   in mind that when Chaka Fattah finally resigned from Congress,   
   it was only to avoid becoming the sixth member in history to be   
   forcibly ejected from the House of Representatives.   
      
   And given the laundry list of crimes he was convicted of,   
   particularly considering the nature of the crimes, his removal   
   would have been unavoidable. You’ll recall that Fattah stole   
   more than half a million dollars from public education funds to   
   pay off some of his personal loans. He helped a friend land a   
   position as an ambassador, leading to another $23K mysteriously   
   winding up in his pocket. He also filched tens of thousands of   
   dollars from a non-profit charitable fund to pay for his kid’s   
   college loans.   
      
   This guy was shameless, and he never even apologized for all of   
   the grifting and theft. The most he said on that subject at his   
   sentencing hearing was that he had been “found on the wrong side   
   of these questions by a jury.” He never once even suggested that   
   there was any problem with him raiding the public piggy bank for   
   his own benefit. It was as if he simply assumed that, having   
   been elected to Congress, the store was open for business and he   
   planned to cash in as much as possible.   
      
   Chaka Fattah will go down in history as one of the most corrupt,   
   self-serving people to ever hold office. And now he’s managed to   
   land himself a release from prison after only serving barely   
   half of the sentence he was given. Some people simply have a   
   charmed life, I suppose. And I guess this means Billy Joel was   
   right when he said only the good die young.   
      
   https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2020/07/18/disgraced-   
   democrat-sprung-prison-without-explanation/   
      
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