{"id":59821,"date":"2015-05-15T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59821"},"modified":"2015-05-15T07:33:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T11:33:11","slug":"kuzma-grave-thief-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59821","title":{"rendered":"Kuzma, grave thief, sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we discussed major scumbag POS Joseph Kuzma who stole grave makers from veterans’ cemeteries in Genesee County, NY. He was sentenced yesterday, but according to David Andreatta, a columnist at the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle<\/a> justice wasn’t done. He was allowed to plea the charges down;<\/p>\n

Prosecutors allowed him to plead guilty to attempted third-degree grand larceny, as though he had only attempted to steal those flag holders and hadn’t actually pulled it off.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been trying to figure that one out myself,” said Tom Williamson, the commander of the Sackett Merrill White American Legion Post No. 575 in Bergen, which he said supplied the flag holders at about $36 apiece. “This isn’t an ‘attempted’ thing. They caught him with them.”<\/p>\n

One of the hundreds of missing holders was at the grave of Williamson’s father, a World War II Navy veteran who is buried at Mount Rest Cemetery in Bergen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Daily News Online<\/a> details the discussion that took place in Judge Robert C. Noonan’s courtroom during the sentencing;<\/p>\n

Noonan said Thursday\u2019s court appearance \u201ccould have been much more serious.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re lucky you didn\u2019t get caught in the act by one of these veterans,\u201d Noonan told Kuzma. \u201cIt\u2019s unimaginable what they would have done to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noonan sentenced Kuzma to four months of weekends in jail, beginning Friday; and five years probation.<\/p>\n

He also ordered him to pay $17,455.50 restitution, the cost to replace the markers, a five percent surcharge and a $325 court fee.<\/p>\n

Restitution will be $300 a month beginning in September for Kuzma, who has no job and is in drug treatment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the D&C article, the author explains;<\/p>\n

Plea deals are the grease that keep the wheels of the criminal justice system in motion, and they usually involve a defendant pleading guilty to a lesser charge in exchange for the prosecution expediting a conviction. That’s why they’re called “deals.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kuzma was caught red-handed, dead-to-rights – he had nothing to deal with. He has no job because he’s a stinkin’ junkie, so good luck trying to get restitution from a stone. His LinkedIn profile says that he has an MBA from St. Bonaventure University, another trust-fund Little Lord Fauntleroy. If he lived in Metro DC, he’d be wearing spandex in DuPont Circle and his mailbox door would be missing, along with at least one of his employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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