Who says justice is blind? Sometimes she can see pretty clearly!
In this case, a judge decided to do more than follow the letter of the law regarding sentencing guidelines. In Louisiana, the court flexed some judicial muscle and threw an entire bookshelf at a defendant.
According to a report retrieved recently from All Headline News:
“Baton Rouge, LA, – A man who led an identity theft and bribery scheme was sentenced to more than three centuries in prison on Wednesday. 
A federal judge decided that Robert Thompson, also known as John Lawson, should serve 309 years for leading a conspiracy to use confidential financial information of over 60 individuals, businesses, churches and financial institutions to steal money and goods.
The sentence is believed to be the longest handed down to a white collar defendant in the history of the Middle District of Louisiana.
Prosecutors say the scheme began in June 2006 and included an attempt to steal $20 million from one victim. Thompson bribed a prison guard while he was an inmate at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center with $10,000 in return for cell phones he used for his crimes.
Thompson was indicted in 2008 along with 10 other people for identity theft. He pleaded guilty a year later to charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, computer fraud, access device fraud, aggravated identity theft, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
The 43-year old from Zachary, LA, reportedly collapsed during his sentencing. He recovered in time to hear the sentence from Chief U.S. District Court Judge Ralph Tyson.”
This low life’s repeated attempts to defraud a long list of victims only goes to prove the well known maxim that “crime doesn’t pay”. In this case perhaps for only a brief moment, crime DID pay.
The problem is that eventually we have to pay it all back.
