As the saying goes, "Lock-em up and throw away the key!" Robert Creamer is getting five months in the pookie. The convicted check kiter/tax evader who helps Alderman Moore stay in office is going to the big house. Creamer ought to have gotten a year just for that.
Federal prosecutors are looking to see if the judge could add a few more months to his behind bars stay. We can only hope. The "Broken Heart" believes Robert Creamer got off easy.
Over 200 letters of support were bombarded the poor judge. Letters people thought would keep Robbie "The Check Kiter" out of the system. But in this case, the judge felt Mr. Creamer deserved jail time. So does the Hell Hole. If Alderman Moore wrote a letter, and we believe he did, could someone send it to us? We really would like to post the letter. We won't tell anyone where we got it from. Did I mention Creamer got a measly five months, that's out of the hole by Christmas.
Still, we think that's just enough time to become someone's "Prison Bitch." Now there's a phrase for Wikipedia.
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Really though.... Only five months?
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Mr. Creamer said.... I'm Innocent....on April 8, 2004
I already made some biting comments on this subject (ILLINOIZE and the Capitol Fax Blog). However, since I could be accused as being biased against Creamer, his wife (AKA my sorry excuse for a Representative in Congress) and my worthless Alderman, Joe Moore (whom we know will never tell the truth when a lie could serve him better), I am asking those of you who might actually believe that nonsense about Creamer being such a wonderful person to do the following when you get a chance.
Go over to the office of the State Board of Elections and check out the D-2 campaign disclosure reports for Joe Moore’s campaign committee for the years 1997 and 1998 (since this was before electronic filing, you will have to go there in person). Check out the loans made by Moore’s campaign committee to Creamer’s organization, and the series of repayments made in return (it will almost seem as if Moore’s committee was an ATM machine). The net result was that on Moore’s Semi-Annual Report, his committee showed what appeared to be some $30,000 or more in income received, when in fact Moore only received a net income of about $25 from Creamer’s group!
These inflated totals obviously made it that much easier for Moore and his fundraisers to raise money from others, including the various businesses and building owners and managers in the 49th Ward (particularly those businesses and buildings that may have had various violations of city codes).
Now none of this violated the Illinois Election Code, a set of laws that are incredibly weak. (For example, if Texas had the same campaign finance laws that exist in Illinois Tom DeLay would never had been indicted.) But these actions do show a pattern of behavior that was fair game for consideration during the sentencing process in federal court. Is it any wonder that Ald. Moore was among the public officials who wrote to the federal court on Creamer’s behalf? Perhaps a good question is whether or not Moore or others wrote such letters more for their own self-interest, (but then again, I admit that my viewpoint may be biased, which is why you need to do your own investigating).
I hope the U.S. Attorney appeals this excessively lenient sentence.
RANDALL SHERMAN
Secretary/Treasurer, Illinois Committee for Honest Government
Chicago
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