Kevin Corcoran for the Indy Star has an article entitled GOP aide gets one year for theft of campaign funds
Bradley Hiller, 33, was given a year in prison after pleading guilty to two felonies in connection with $146,775 in spending he couldn’t account for while running the Indiana Senate Republicans’ fund-raising committee.
Hiller admitted stealing from the Indiana Senate Majority Campaign Committee while he served as its director from January 2001 to November 2003. Hiller also served on the Indiana Election Commission, which punishes election-law violations.
The Senate committee is a fund-raising organization devoted to electing Republicans to Indiana’s Senate. It was Hiller’s job to help recruit candidates, solicit contributions and plan fund-raising events.
I don’t know Hiller, but just the basic stats: 33 year old political type seems very much like someone I could have hung around with. Every so often, you start feeling like maybe only chumps play it straight. But then, for my part, I realize that I’m doing o.k., not really lacking for anything important, and the stuff I really end up enjoying are all the cliches: family, friends, a good joke, nice weather, maybe a round of golf on a nice course every so often and a really good beer. I don’t need to steal to get any of that stuff, and frankly, a life of crime wouldn’t be for me as I’m too lazy to remember my lies. So, God willing, I’ll never find myself in a court room throwing up into a trash can as a judge sentences me to a year in jail like Mr. Hiller did.
(Just an aside, but if you ever want to feel good about what you do have, wander into your local courthouse when they’re doing arraignments. See guys facing hard time for rapes, assaults, and major drug charges, and you’ll realize your worries are pretty paltry by comparison.)
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