On May 2, 8:00=A0pm, jerry <GeraldCNew...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> A judge Friday morning sentenced former Fairbanks Mayor Jim Hayes and
> his wife to 5 1/2 and 3 years in federal prison, respectively, for
> stealing from social-service grants between 2001 and 2005.
>
> In handing down a longer sentence for the former three-term mayor than
> wife Murilda "Chris" Hayes, District Judge John Sedwick rejected
> suggestions from both that she had been the one responsible for the
> crimes while he should receive leniency.
>
> =93I think Mr. Hayes has done more harm than he realizes to this
> community and his church,=94 Sedwick said.
>
> The Hayeses will likely be asked to re****t to prison within four to
> six weeks, Sedwick estimated. He recommended that prison system
> officials send Chris Hayes, who a psychiatrist said has suffered from
> depression, to a jail in Spokane, Wash. to keep her close to Alaska.
>
> A jury convicted the former three-term city mayor in February of
> working with his wife to siphon close to $450,000 from the grants.
> Federal investigators had traced the money to personal purchases and
> to an over-budget construction project at a church =97 where Jim Hayes
> served as pastor =97 across the street from Chris Hayes=92 tutoring
> center, which had originally received the grants.
>
>
from:http://www.newsminer.com/news/2008/may/02/hayeses-sentenced-jim-5-12-=
....
>
> my comments:
> I knew Jim Hayes when he worked for the Attorney General's Office. He
> is a good man. He did many good things for Fairbanks as Mayor, too. I
> think he should be pardoned by President Bush and am writing a letter
> for that. $450,000 is miniscule compared to what goes on in government
> and in war. I ask any of you this; did Jim Hayes and his wife do any
> real evil? Did they hurt anyone? They were victims of mismanagement of
> funds, something that all of us have done at one time or another. I
> simply do not see the punishment fitting the crime. I think also if
> the Hayes had the money to hire a very good attorney they would have
> been found not guilty and set free. But they are black and poor and
> have received a severe punishment for a relatively insignificant
> crime.
I posted my comments at the news miner site and one poster said the
Hayeses live in a 1/2 million dollar home in Doyon Estates and have a
$250,000 cabin at Harding Lake. They posted the link to the FNSB
property database to prove their point. I guess that is supposed to
mean they are not poor. But just about anyone can buy property and
make payments, but that does not mean they are rich.
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