'Corruption Superspreader' Can't Cut Jail Time, 7th Circ. Says
By Celeste Bott ( July 28, 2023, 4:43 PM EDT) -- A Seventh Circuit panel on Friday upheld a five-year prison sentence for a former Illinois lawmaker dubbed a "corruption superspreader," an outcome predicted by experts who said his novel argument that a lengthy sentence would fail to deter others just as he wasn't deterred by others' convictions was "creativity gone too far."...
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