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Safavian Sentenced To Year In Prison
Former White House aide David Safavian was sentenced to a year in prison today after he was found guilty in two separate trials on four counts of obstruction of justice and false statements related to the Jack Abramoff investigation.
Judge Paul Friedman said he decided on the sentencing for Safavian, who served as General Services Administration chief of staff in George W. Bush's administration, after weighing the need for "deterrence" and "respect of law" with the "suffering" that Safavian's family has endured during four years of trial proceedings. Federal prosecutors had suggested 15 to 21 months in prison.
"Nobody expects you to ever commit another crime," Friedman said. But "sometime in those two or three years" when Safavian was being investigated for his connections to Abramoff, "a light bulb should have gone off."
Safavian was first found guilty on four counts and acquitted on one count in 2006, and he was sentenced to 18 months in prison. In 2008, the conviction was overturned, and in a retrial in December 2008, Safavian was again found guilty on the four counts.
Safavian maintained at the sentencing that while he made mistakes in his relationship with Abramoff -- giving the lobbyist information that would benefit his clients and taking a golf trip to Scotland that was paid for largely by Abramoff, according to trial testimony -- he did not knowingly lie about the relationship during the government's investigations.
"I acknowledge severe lapses in judgment in regard to my relationship with Jack Abramoff," he told the judge. But "I can't stand here and say I intentionally" lied to investigators, he added.
Safavian also asked the judge to consider his family's emotional and financial suffering -- ongoing trial proceedings have left his family bankrupt while he is no longer able to find work, he said -- and the fact that his case has already served as a deterrent for other executive branch employees.
"I'm the poster child for staying away from the gray areas of ethics," he said.
Safavian's sentence will be delayed until after his wife, who is pregnant with their second child, gives birth. She had also asked the judge for mercy during the sentencing hearing.
"David is not like Jack Abramoff or the other people who have pled guilty for their associations with him," Jennifer Safavian said. "Jack Abramoff is a despicable human being who has created so much suffering."
Safavian was the first person involved in the Abramoff scandal to go to trial rather than plead guilty. The second was former Abramoff associate Kevin Ring, who may face a retrial after jurors announced Thursday that they could not arrive at a verdict in his case. Horace Cooper, a former legislative and executive branch staffer, and Fraser Verrusio, former aide to Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, are also expected to go to trial on Abramoff-related charges.
Two other Abramoff-related hearings -- status conferences for former congressional staffer John Albaugh and former Abramoff associate Tony Rudy -- were scheduled for Friday morning but were delayed until January. They have both pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing. Albaugh's attorney, Jeffrey Jacobovitz, said his hearing was delayed to wait for a pre-sentencing report.


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