Sentences Rise While Crimes Fall, Legal Experts Say
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com When William Jefferson was convicted on public corruption charges in 2009, he got hit with a 13-year sentence–the highest prison term a Congressman has ever received. Bernie Madoff, the financial scammer who pleaded guilty in New York in 2009 to running a massive Ponzi scheme, was handed a whopping 150-year sentence….