From our Bureau of Latrine American Ex-Presidents in Hot Water
One of Castro, Inc.’s most stalwart bootlickers has once again been found guilty of graft. The Argentine court that heard her appeal upheld a lower court’s judgement. This is not the end of the story, however. She will undoubtedly appeal again, at Argentina’s supreme court. If that court also upholds the conviction, she will serve her six-year sentence under house arrest and be perpetually disqualified from holding public office.
From the Buenos Aires Times
A court in Buenos Aires on Wednesday upheld the corruption conviction and sentence against former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in the so-called ‘Vialidad’ case, confirming the six-year jail term given to the veteran Peronist leader and her lifetime ban from holding public office.
Fernández de Kirchner, who was Argentina’s president from 2007 to 2015 and vice-president from 2019-2023, can still appeal her conviction for “fraudulent administration” to the Supreme Court.
The 71-year-old will not serve any jail time until the conviction is deemed final when, given her age, she would be eligible for house arrest. She can continue to hold political roles until all avenues of appeal have been exhausted.
Fernández de Kirchner was first sentenced in 2022 for alleged corruption in the awarding of public works projects during her presidency. Those convictions have now been upheld by a higher court, which reviewed the verdicts for the ex-president and 12 other defendants standing trial.
Wednesday’s ruling, in which Fernández de Kirchner and several of her ex-officials were condemned, was streamed live on the Internet from a courthouse in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Retiro.
The former president, like many of the defendants, was not in court for the reading of the ruling.
Chamber IV of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation, composed of Judge Gustavo Hornos, Mariano Borinsky and Diego Barroetaveña, ruled that the previous trial had “demonstrated a series of acts of government” that deliberately created a “circuit of irregularities.”
They decided to “sentence Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner to six years in prison” and “special perpetual disqualification from holding public office,”
The Partido Justicialista leader was held “criminally responsible for the crime of fraudulent administration to the detriment of the public administration.”
Confirming the findings of the federal court, the judges ruled by a two-to-one majority (Hornos in the minority) to uphold the previous ruling and reject prosecution demands for a 12-year prison sentence and an additional conviction of “illicit association.”
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She will never really pay for her crimes, but this is better than nothing. She’s a tacky, vulgar crook with no shame and no class, no matter how hard she tries to pass for una gran señora. Classic Latrine fraud.
In a way, the Murillo witch is more honest than Cretina, or more frankly herself. Cretina is a tarted up phony.