(Guest blogged by Logan Murphy)
That's the number former Ohio Congressman Bob Ney will be sporting in federal prison for the next thirty months.
Former Congressman Bob Ney reported to a federal prison Thursday morning to begin serving a 2 1/2-year sentence for corruption, a fall from grace spurred by gifts from now imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
As inmate No. 28882-016, Ney's lifestyle will be more austere and his wardrobe mainly khaki.
The six-term Ohio Republican who once drew a $165,200 annual salary will be getting a wage of 12 cents to 40 cents an hour, depending on his prison job. Movie nights will be in a high school-style auditorium with 1,300 other inmates. He'll sleep on a bunk bed in a room for 12.
Ney pleaded guilty in October to conspiracy and making false statements, admitting he traded influence for golf trips, campaign donations and other gifts arranged by once-influential lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates.
Let's give Bob a warm C&L send off, shall we?
