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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: theking on November 20, 2022, 10:55:58 PM
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Rev. Jesse Jackson calls for investigation into alleged racist sentencing of Indian American businessman
Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson has called on authorities to investigate whether racism played a part in the sentencing of Indian American businessman Nikesh Patel.
Patel, 39, was previously sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2018 by the Northern District Court of Illinois after pleading guilty to selling $179 million worth of fraudulent loans to a Milwaukee investment firm.
His sentence, however, is two and a half times longer than that of his white business partner and co-conspirator, Timothy Fisher.
According to Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, Patel and Fisher were approximately equal participants in the crime as “one could not have done it with the other.”
(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/Yca_nLWlCetbQsUAHK.9CA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTUxMDtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/nextshark_articles_509/ebee9e741fcb161f5b5d785f16ae3a0b)
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Rev. Jesse Jackson calls for investigation into alleged racist sentencing of Indian American businessman
Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson has called on authorities to investigate whether racism played a part in the sentencing of Indian American businessman Nikesh Patel.
Patel, 39, was previously sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2018 by the Northern District Court of Illinois after pleading guilty to selling $179 million worth of fraudulent loans to a Milwaukee investment firm.
His sentence, however, is two and a half times longer than that of his white business partner and co-conspirator, Timothy Fisher.
According to Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, Patel and Fisher were approximately equal participants in the crime as “one could not have done it with the other.”
(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/Yca_nLWlCetbQsUAHK.9CA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTUxMDtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/nextshark_articles_509/ebee9e741fcb161f5b5d785f16ae3a0b)
Don't throw these guys in jail, make them pay it all back... down to the last cent.