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UPDATE: Traficant left prison at 10:53 a.m. EST today
TweetPublished: Wed, September 2, 2009 @ 12:00 p.m.
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Former Ohio Rep. James Traficant has been freed from a Minnesota prison after serving seven years for bribery and racketeering.
Traficant, a nine-term Democrat from Youngstown, walked out of the Federal Prison Medical Center at 10:53 a.m. EST time today.
Traficant, wearing a gray T-shirt, white shorts and white knee-high socks, didn't respond to reporters' questions before stepping into a waiting cab that drove off.
For more on this story, see Thursday’s Vindicator or vindy.com
(Associated Press and other reporting contributed to this report.)
Comments
did the toup' go with him??
Free at last! Thank God Almighty, America's #1 political prisoner is free at last! May the crucified truth he incarnates help set the rest of us free.
Take it easy Attis. You're embarrassing us!
EST? But we're on EDT... now I have to do time conversions?
"EST? But we're on EDT... now I have to do time conversions?"
My guess is that the conversion is going to be quite difficult for you!
welcome back Jimmbo
"My guess is that the conversion is going to be quite difficult for you!"
It's actually one of the first lessons in a class I teach, I just felt like creatively pointing out the typo!
go get em Jimmy