{"id":76325,"date":"2017-12-04T15:39:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T20:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76325"},"modified":"2017-12-04T15:43:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T20:43:48","slug":"corrine-brown-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76325","title":{"rendered":"Corrine Brown sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=66730\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66730\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Corrine-Brown-228x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-66730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Corrine-Brown-228x333.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Corrine-Brown-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Corrine-Brown.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/wp\/2017\/12\/04\/former-congresswoman-corrine-brown-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison-in-charity-slush-fund-case\/?utm_term=.3a34d0ce0650\">Washington Post<\/a> reports that Congresswoman Corrine Brown was sentenced to five years in prison after a jury found her guilty of using her charity like an ATM machine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prosecutors argued that the 71-year-old had turned a charity for poor students into an $800,000 personal slush fund, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>After a nearly 25-year career in Congress, she was convicted in May and could have spent the rest of her life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a sad day for everyone,\u201d U.S. District Judge Timothy Corrigan told Brown shortly after sentencing her, according to the Florida Times-Union. \u201cI was impressed with all the outpouring of support for you, and I think it\u2019s a tribute to all the work you\u2019ve done over the years. That\u2019s what makes this all the more tragic.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, tragic. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66805\">Last year<\/a> she told the media that feds could have stopped the Orlando gunman from killing all of those people in the Pulse nightclub if they hadn&#8217;t been wasting their time investigating her.<\/p>\n<p>She tried to blame her chief of staff, Elias \u201cRonnie\u201d Simmons, for bookkeeping errors. He told the court that she had directed him to make the withdrawals from her charity, the money meant to help poor children.<\/p>\n<p>The swamp drains itself.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Chip for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that Congresswoman Corrine Brown was sentenced to five years in prison after &hellip; <a title=\"Corrine Brown sentenced\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76325\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Corrine Brown sentenced<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}