J Steven Griles sentenced to 10 months

[LSK]

WASHINGTON - A federal judge chastised the Interior Department's former No. 2 official and doubled his proposed prison term to 10 months Tuesday for lying to senators in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal and making excuses about it in court.

J. Steven Griles was the department's deputy secretary and is the highest administration official sentenced in the probe. He pleaded guilty to obstructing a congressional investigation, but on Tuesday his lawyers tried to deflect blame for his faulty testimony.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle was not pleased.

"Even now you continue to minimize and try to excuse your conduct," she told Griles before doubling the five-month prison term he and prosecutors had agreed on.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/griles_abramoff

[burythehatchet]

1. maybe he can bunk up with Italiana Buttafucci or whoever that

bimbo is.

[blogslut]

2. kick

:)

[Spazito]

3. Good to see the Judge sentenced him to the whole 10 months

in prison instead of accepting the prosecution's 5 months in prison and 5 months home arrest. WTG Judge!

[annabanana]

4. I'm surprised this didn't get more attention here... It's GOOD

I love it when "the highest-ranking B*sh administraion official convicted in the Abramoff corruction investigation" gets sentenced.

[ellisonz]

5. K & R

[Canuckistanian]

6. Very good news

Griles was one of the worst. He practically invented the revolving door of lobbying and official government service.

AND he was the protege of James Watt. Another Reagan legacy.