I calculate Smiley is "earning" $314,000 for each
year he has been sentenced to. ($3M stolen less $1.9M
repayment divided by the 3.5 years of incarceration -
if he even spends the full time behind bars). Doesn't
seem like much of a punishment or deterant.
C.J. Scheiner
--- Everett Wilkie <ewilkie@IX.NETCOM.COM> wrote:
> This article appeared this afternoon on the
> Courant.com website. --ECW
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Map Dealer Sentenced to 3 ½ Years
> By KIM MARTINEAU Courant Staff Writer
> September 27 2006, 5:03 PM EDT
> > NEW HAVEN -- A map dealer who looted $3
> million in maps from some of
> the world's finest libraries has been sentenced to
> just over 3 ½ years in
> prison and admonished for his crimes against culture
> that hurt librarians
> and other map dealers but also the public at large.
>
>......The judge also ordered Smiley to pay $1.9
million to the map dealers and
> collectors who unwittingly bought the stolen goods.......
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