Mitchell Englander betrayed the public trust and he should go to prison for his crimes. Englander denies having engaged in obstruction of justice or witness tampering, but he acknowledges taking the money and lying. The single count to which Englander pleaded guilty carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. For his pattern of “coolly calculated criminality and trampled public trust,” prosecutors argued that Englander deserved “a meaningful term of imprisonment.”I’m not a judge. I don’t know the exact sentence that would be appropriate, and I’m not saying that Englander deserves the harshest possible sentence.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 23, 2021 11:22 UTC