Fitz: Ryan sentence "appropriate" (6 1/2 years)

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link: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=ae1bxt86n.9A&refer=us

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Former Illinois Governor Ryan Gets 6 ½-Year Sentence
By Andrew Harris and Eddie Baeb

Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- George Ryan, the former Illinois governor nominated for a Nobel Prize after he commuted 157 death sentences over doubts about the state's criminal-justice system, was sentenced to 6 ½ years in prison for public corruption.

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Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald called the sentence ``appropriate.'' Pallmeyer hasn't ruled on Ryan's motion to remain free on bond. She said the former governor wouldn't be required to surrender to prison authorities until Jan. 4.

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It ain't over, I'm tellin' ya....

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1. It figures that Ryan is among the very few high-profile Republicans

to ever be held accountable for anything.