Lea Fastow Leaves Prison for Halfway House

[MountainLaurel]

http://news.findlaw.com/ap/f/66/06-06-2005/df4b001ec67adb0b.html

HOUSTON-The wife of former Enron Corp. finance chief Andrew Fastow left a federal prison in Houston early Monday to serve the last month of her one-year sentence for a tax crime in a halfway house, her lawyer said.

Lea Fastow, 43, exited a federal detention center flanked by her husband, her sister and her lawyers, Mike DeGeurin and Jennifer Ahlen.

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She is slated to be released from the halfway house July 10. She began serving her sentence on July 12, 2004. Tracy Billingsley, a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, said such transitions from prisons to halfway houses are common, particularly for nonviolent first-time offenders.

Lea Fastow pleaded guilty last year to a misdemeanor tax crime for failing to report on her and her husband's joint tax returns ill-gotten gains from kickbacks they pocketed from his myriad illegal dealings at Enron. Her misdemeanor plea came after she had initially pleaded guilty to one of six felonies stemming from the same crimes, which included endorsing and depositing checks made out to the couple's two young sons.

So we're going to put pot-smoking cancer patients in prison, but a woman who helped bilk millions is out in a year?

:shrug:

[Raster]

1. but of course... she's a member of the good ol' boy(girl), white,

republican, texas petroleum mafia. Just a minor inconvenience. I guarantee you she and hubby-just like the rest of their River Oaks crook friends--have enough cash stashed in offshore accounts to make up for this "little problem."

[MountainLaurel]

3. Unfortunately

Perhaps we should create a link from this thread to the one about whether, if Roe v. Wade is overturned, rich women will still have access to abortions.

As if there would be any question.

:grr:

[roguevalley]

2. she should get life without parole, the bitch.