Barry Avoids [More] Jail Time [For Now]
Democrat Marion B*tch Set Me Up Barry didn't wake up in the slammer this morning. Thanks to a technicality the former DC Mayor, and the city's most famous crack head, has avoided jail time - for now.
According to The Post:
A federal judge refused yesterday to put D.C. Council member Marion Barry in jail for violating his probation in a criminal tax case.
The ruling was a blow to federal prosecutors, who wanted Barry locked up for missing deadlines for filing federal and District tax returns for 2005. Sidestepping the issue on a technical point, U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson rejected the prosecutors' request to revoke Barry's probation. She said it was up to the federal probation office -- not prosecutors -- to make the request.
In typical Marion Barry fashion, he tried his best to turn this into yet another tin-foil hat conspiracy to get him. More from The Post:
In an interview yesterday, Barry said he was "delighted" about the new ruling and said he "thanks the judge for her fairness" in the tax matter. He added that he believes the handling of his case by the U.S. attorney's office was "embarrassing and humiliating" to him.
"Thousands of Americans have tax problems with the IRS, and they're not treated this way," Barry said. "It's a double standard, and the U.S. attorney ought to stop it."
Barry is "embarrassed" and "humiliated?" Give me a break. It is District taxpayers, whom Barry has made a career of fleecing, that should be embarrassed and humiliated by this.
According to The Post:
A federal judge refused yesterday to put D.C. Council member Marion Barry in jail for violating his probation in a criminal tax case.
The ruling was a blow to federal prosecutors, who wanted Barry locked up for missing deadlines for filing federal and District tax returns for 2005. Sidestepping the issue on a technical point, U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson rejected the prosecutors' request to revoke Barry's probation. She said it was up to the federal probation office -- not prosecutors -- to make the request.
In typical Marion Barry fashion, he tried his best to turn this into yet another tin-foil hat conspiracy to get him. More from The Post:
In an interview yesterday, Barry said he was "delighted" about the new ruling and said he "thanks the judge for her fairness" in the tax matter. He added that he believes the handling of his case by the U.S. attorney's office was "embarrassing and humiliating" to him.
"Thousands of Americans have tax problems with the IRS, and they're not treated this way," Barry said. "It's a double standard, and the U.S. attorney ought to stop it."
Barry is "embarrassed" and "humiliated?" Give me a break. It is District taxpayers, whom Barry has made a career of fleecing, that should be embarrassed and humiliated by this.
posted by ChrisBarronDC at 6:15 AM
1 Comments:
Christ - I was out of the country last week and ran into a former D.C. resident who asked about the latest Barry shenanigans...not knowing about this latest disgrace, just assuming that because he's still breathing he's up to no good. Here we go again...I'd say that I hope he gets hit by a Metrobus, but what I really want is for this loser's rotting corpse to be found in his car with the latest sack of crack and weed he bought. Then maybe his apologists would finally shut up rather than order up a load of ridiculous t-shirts with his image on it and tie some some stuffed animals to a lightpost when he finally shuffles off his mortal coil.
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