from Pennlive.com

by Ben Tylenda
Wednesday August 05, 2009, 1:13 AM

I want to take this opportunity to express my greatest outrage at the prison sentence for former state Sen. Vincent Fumo. U. S. District Judge Ronald Buckwalter gave Fumo 55 months of prison time for 137 counts of conviction for political corruption and theft of millions of dollars from the citizens of Pennsylvania.

What did Fumo give to Judge Buckwalter? $100,000? $200,000? $500,000 to Buckwalter’s “favorite charity”? How much? The last time Fumo was convicted by a jury, of paying “ghost employees” on his payroll, the conviction was overturned and vacated by a federal judge. Is this deja vu all over again?

Hopefully state or federal prosecutors will investigate this sentence. Ex-Sen. Vincent Fumo — poster child for term limits.

BEN TYLENDA, Fairview Twp.