Former West Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Allen Loughry surrendered at a federal prison facility in South Carolina Friday, where he will serve a two-year sentence for crimes relating to a sweeping public corruption scandal.
A federal judge sentenced the disgraced ex-justice in February, following his conviction for wire fraud, mail fraud and lying to federal investigators.
In addition to criminal penalties, Loughry was disbarred from legal practice, agreed never to seek public office again and paid fines totaling $12,000.
Local press accounts of lavish renovations at the state Supreme Court set off an audit of the justice’s spending practices. That inquiry discovered that Loughry and another justice, Menis Ketchum, used state resources for personal purposes. A federal investigation followed, leading to a battery of criminal charges against Loughry and Ketchum.
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And when the legislature in West Virginia started proceedings to impeach all of the corrupt justices, the justices ruled that they can't be impeached.
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The legislature should have sent State Troopers into the court and arrested all of them!
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Pony show
lock up Obamee and Hillary
Two years? What a joke!
ReplyDeleteBetter get your squabbles up your honor, it's gonna be a long night.
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