According to the Associated Press, a Tampa man was able to receive a vastly more lenient sentence on a $1.8 million federal embezzlement charge by blaming it on his Paxil prescription.
Sad to say, the judge in this case was an appointee of Bill Clinton's.
Drug addicted criminals all across the land have to be celebrating this, as if you are a heroin user and stole a car or did a break in to finance your habit you can blame the illegal action on the drugs and get only a slap on the wrist.
Hell, Rush Limbaugh could have claimed that the OxyContin urged him to violate prescription laws by being so narcotic and probably walked off with a reduced charge since he wasn't about to admit responsibility of any sort for his actions.
Moreover, the embezzler will probably end up suing his doctor since he now has a judgment entered into the public record that somebody like him who was bipolar should never have been given Paxil, meaning that a white collar criminal is about to get his ass a big payday thanks to our squirrely legal system.
By the way, let's end this whole Club Fed bullshit for white collar criminals. Put them in maximum stir. That should deter at least some who are contemplating ripping off their companies or private individuals if they have to room with Tyrone the street thug from the Bronx who is doing a dime for armed robbery. This class system we have that differentiates scum who rip you off at gunpoint from those who use a computer or a line of bullshit is nonsensical and unfair. Put the screws to both of them.
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