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President Trump pardons former 49ers owner Wacky Eddie DeBartolo Jr for gambling fraud conviction!
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Whit is it Trump likes about rich crooks and scoundrels. He is the biggest, crookedest piece of crap president this country has ever seen.
whitehall
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I don't know about DeBartolio but Pete Rose got a raw deal twenty years ago and the President gave him a break. Rose was denied HOF status because he bet on his own team to win. Imagine if they denied status in the Rock&Roll HOF for felonious drug possession. It would be a vast empty hall. Double standard?
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Oh, for cryin' out loud. That happened 22 years ago, and the man paid a million bucks and was on probation for two years.
He reformed, but his poor political judgment is still following him around, because the hit on him was political, imho. You can grind people into the ground for just so long, really, after they learned their lesson and never reoffended.
I found this:
When the money's all gone after a couple of hours, I go home only the price of a couple of theater tickets poorer.
Unfortunately everyone who gambles can get sucked into its addiction and can land their home, farm, job, or business into terminal turmoil, because they spend every last penny including money for the trip home, so they don't have to face the music right away after pillaging all bank accounts including their kids college funds, which can put every good thing their family ever did back into the dark ages. So instead of becoming teachers, doctors, or lawyers, their children wind up with a series of part time jobs at fast-food chains or just chain stores, with the emphasis on chains, since everyone is chained to a bad fate as they have no house, no car, and someone is constantly repossessing their future.
Gambling is all bad for gamblers, and a million bucks isn't going to fix the problems created by even one casino. But after 22 years, wounds tend to heal, except for the suicides caused by financial destitution, and some offenders who are penalized turn their lives around to be true public servants.
I do not know why President Trump forgave this man, but apparently he was one who turned away from the wrong that he did and never went back to it. And a Presidential pardon can free a person who has paid his dues to society in other finer ways. I'm giving the man a pass and pray he forever works for the good of others following his pardon.
He reformed, but his poor political judgment is still following him around, because the hit on him was political, imho. You can grind people into the ground for just so long, really, after they learned their lesson and never reoffended.
I found this:
DeBartolo Guilty of Felony / $1 million fine, 2 years of probation
David Dietz, Howard Arceneaux, Chronicle Staff Writers
Published 4:00 am PDT, Wednesday, October 7, 1998
1998-10-07 04:00:00 PDT Baton Rouge -- His head bowed and speaking in a subdued voice, San Francisco 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr. pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to a felony charge of failing to report that Louisiana's former governor allegedly extorted $400,000 from him to win a casino license.
With the plea, DeBartolo avoided prison. But he agreed to pay $1 million in penalties, serve two years of probation and testify in future trials against ex-Governor Edwin Edwards and his son, Stephen, key targets in a federal probe into the state's gambling industry.
In testimony leading to DeBartolo's admission, FBI agent Jeffrey Santini described an alleged two- year courtship in which DeBartolo at first resisted but then finally agreed last year to pay Edwards the money -- in crisp $100 bills -- to help him win the final riverboat license to be awarded by the state's gaming commission.
DeBartolo got the license but later withdrew from the project when he was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury investigating the deal.
And by the way, I am not fond of gambling, because when I go, I only take $20 and play the penny or nickel machines.David Dietz, Howard Arceneaux, Chronicle Staff Writers
Published 4:00 am PDT, Wednesday, October 7, 1998
1998-10-07 04:00:00 PDT Baton Rouge -- His head bowed and speaking in a subdued voice, San Francisco 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr. pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to a felony charge of failing to report that Louisiana's former governor allegedly extorted $400,000 from him to win a casino license.
With the plea, DeBartolo avoided prison. But he agreed to pay $1 million in penalties, serve two years of probation and testify in future trials against ex-Governor Edwin Edwards and his son, Stephen, key targets in a federal probe into the state's gambling industry.
In testimony leading to DeBartolo's admission, FBI agent Jeffrey Santini described an alleged two- year courtship in which DeBartolo at first resisted but then finally agreed last year to pay Edwards the money -- in crisp $100 bills -- to help him win the final riverboat license to be awarded by the state's gaming commission.
DeBartolo got the license but later withdrew from the project when he was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury investigating the deal.
When the money's all gone after a couple of hours, I go home only the price of a couple of theater tickets poorer.
Unfortunately everyone who gambles can get sucked into its addiction and can land their home, farm, job, or business into terminal turmoil, because they spend every last penny including money for the trip home, so they don't have to face the music right away after pillaging all bank accounts including their kids college funds, which can put every good thing their family ever did back into the dark ages. So instead of becoming teachers, doctors, or lawyers, their children wind up with a series of part time jobs at fast-food chains or just chain stores, with the emphasis on chains, since everyone is chained to a bad fate as they have no house, no car, and someone is constantly repossessing their future.
Gambling is all bad for gamblers, and a million bucks isn't going to fix the problems created by even one casino. But after 22 years, wounds tend to heal, except for the suicides caused by financial destitution, and some offenders who are penalized turn their lives around to be true public servants.
I do not know why President Trump forgave this man, but apparently he was one who turned away from the wrong that he did and never went back to it. And a Presidential pardon can free a person who has paid his dues to society in other finer ways. I'm giving the man a pass and pray he forever works for the good of others following his pardon.
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Glad to hear it, DeBartolo was born and bred in the tremendous city of Youngstown
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" President Trump says he has commuted the prison sentence of Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor jailed on corruption charges."
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yes--those crooks lied about their taxes!!! EVIL !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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