UPDATE #2: Full press release from the Attorney General’s office after the jump. We’ll take odds on Bruce violating his probation at some point, given his history of refusing to turn over records and this line from the press release:
As part of his probation, Bruce will have to meet 20 additional conditions including, making his computer files, state and federal tax returns, banks accounts, and every real estate or other financial transaction open to the probation department.
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UPDATE: Tweets Joe Hanel of the Durango Herald, Doug Bruce to the pokey after all–sentenced to 180 days total on the tax evasion and influencing a public servant charges.
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Details coming shortly.
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced today that a Denver judge has sentenced Colorado Springs resident Douglas Bruce (DOB: 8/26/1949) to 180 days in the Denver County Jail and a six-year probation sentence for tax evasion during the 2005, 2006 and 2007 tax years. As part of his probation, Bruce will have to meet 20 additional conditions including, making his computer files, state and federal tax returns, banks accounts, and every real estate or other financial transaction open to the probation department.
A Denver jury convicted Bruce of three felonies and one misdemeanor in December 2011.
Bruce’s sentence stems from a four-count indictment, filed in April 2011, that charged Bruce in the tax-evasion case. Bruce attempted to evade his tax responsibilities by funneling his income into the coffers of Active Citizens Together, a nonprofit he created in 2001, and failed to report such income to the Department of Revenue. For example, Bruce deposited $2 million in an account for Active Citizens Together. This account earned interest in the amount of $38,000 in 2005, $55,000 in 2006, and $85,000 in 2007, which Bruce failed to report to state and federal taxing authorities as income. During those time periods, Bruce used these funds as his own.
Bruce also was indicted for filing a false tax return on income he earned during the 2005 tax year and failing to file a tax return concerning income he earned during the 2006 and 2007 tax years.
Bruce will be required, as part of his sentence, to pay his back taxes and the cost of his prosecution.
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….pissing off the trial judge normally is a ticket to a long painful sentence. I don’t know how he managed to dodge that one.
From the Daily Prophet:
they can’t tell teh Bruce what to do.
Press release from AG office
Study: Black people receive 60 percent longer sentences for same crimes.
http://newsone.com/nation/case…
Six years probation. Pretty light treatment considering all the harm he’s done to this state over the years. (I know, I know, we need to leave open cells for people who glitter…)
Not sure I’d have been quite so lenient – 180 days? Heck that’s only about 1/3 of what he should have gotten even with all the restrictions on his probation.
There are child abusers and manslaughter convicts who don’t get six months in jail. I know you all hate Bruce, but you’re making hypocrites of yourselves. Don’t Democrats want sentencing reform for nonviolent offenders?
Just not Doug Bruce! Hypocrites.
He was convicted of not one, not two, but three felonies and a misdemeanor and 180 days seems unfair to you? Wow. Your hypocrisy is breathtaking.
Overcrowded prisons full of nonviolent drug offenders that can’t expand because Republicans don’t want to fund them, and can’t release the nonviolent offenders into job training programs because Republicans don’t want to fund that or seem soft on crime.
(I’m not really convinced 180 days and six years probation is inappropriate here, I’m sure the judge took all necessary mitigating circumstances into account, but your point is silly.)
The 3 FPE’s, aka, sisterhood, have spoken.
As long as the criminal is a Republican. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
Probably thinks the guy has a good heart and maybe just needs a hug. “Ahhh wittle Brucie get a big bad time out. Come to ArapaGOP and he’ll wipe away your tears. We are can’t stand punishment of our own.”
a day/$1000 seems fair. And, I’ll bet he gets out after a week or 2
But really, everything you’ve thrown against the wall today is just pathetic.
I want sentencing reform for drug offenses. Incarceration has never been an affordable, nor effective, substitutio for rehab. White collar criminals who rob taxpayers or investers of large sums of money? Lock them up and throw away the key.
Oh, what’s that — the only Dem who ever said that was the fantasy Dem you keep in your head to be an easy sparring partner? Tell him I said “hi.”
without that fantasy Dem he’d have nothing. And the best part is, unlike his blatantly false “facts” (see anything he’s ever said about regulation killing gas drilling here in Colorado for a recent example) which can easily be checked against the real, documented facts, “Dems say” claims created entirely in his own head aren’t so easily fact checked. Can’t blame him for retreating to a fantasy world the way things are going for his faves in the real one.
N/T
Wouldn’t it be just awful if he messed up his probation and a tax referendum passed by just one vote while he was inside?
n/t
Neither he nor Newt Gingrich can ever see what they have done themselves is unethical. Both blame others. Psychologists call what they have “Clinical Narcissism”.
What an attic full of crazy “uncles” he’s accumulated.
And kind of inconvenient in his new life as a D. And in the unlikely event that my surviving uncle ever sees this, I just want to say he may be a rightie but he has a heart of gold and you can find his picture in the dictionary next to “stand up guy”. Also he’s retired from rescuing people from burnng buildings. I guess you could call that crazy.
would he think he’s being imprisoned for his politics when nancycronk gloats over his incarceration with something like this?
No, really, it isn’t about authoring TABOR at all. Not at all.
when and where he reports for incarceration and greet him? Who would write a song we could sing to him? It should include themes of being a slumlord, tax cheat, traveler to Russia in search of a woman who hasn’t heard of him, etc.
He’s already working on his book to be completed in jail:
“Mein Kick.”
What was he thinking?
lawyers will represent anybody. They can’t be embarrassed. They don’t understand the concept.
and claim inadequate representation
His bigger problem is the IRS. The feds won’t be near as gentle.
He does lots of pro bono work, much of it that goes largely unnoticed. His work on Gitmo prisoners is really important work.
I hate Doug Bruce, but I love that David Lane is willing to represent someone that so many hate and bring his considerable talents to ensure that every citizens constitutional rights are protected.
Where would we be if lawyers let themselves be intimidated out of providing representation for those we hate?
Thank you for this post, I so absolutely have the same opinion! And it’s very stimulating for me. I’m just functioning on my opinion with this issue.
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