Delay gets 3 years in prison

[Mikey]

Originally Posted by goof2

There was only one prosecution witness offered at sentencing. The trial was different.

Charlie Rangel is free because he played the "Whoops, my bad. I'll just pay those back taxes now." card. Delay chose to fight his charges instead.

I see. I misunderstood that this was strictly a sentencing hearing.

Carlie Rangel didn't just violate tax law. He was recently censured for all sorts of inappropriate use of funds via his PAC, including using PAC funds to mount his legal defense for the hearings about inappropriate use of funds.