Robin Hood, Jailed

[Cream Soda]

DETROIT - A bank manager who insists she gave the $340,000 she stole over eight years to needy customers was sentenced Tuesday to a year and a day in prison by a judge who declared that her "Robin Hood days are long over."

Patricia Keezer, 53, said the embezzling began in 2000, when she would give needy people $2,000 at a time for car repairs, mortgage payments and taxes. Keezer commonly reversed bounced-check charges and other fees when she was a manager of Citizens Bank, formerly known as Republic Bank, in Manchester, 70 miles southwest of Detroit.

"I would take other people's problems and make them my problems," Keezer told the judge. "I do have a problem with giving things away."
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She repeatedly expressed remorse and said she would accept the death penalty for the crime if it were a possibility and she didn't have a family.

'Implausable'
Assistant U.S. Attorney Erin Shaw asked for two years in prison and said Keezer's claim of a crime rooted in charity was "implausible."

"We don't know where the money is. ... It just doesn't add up," Shaw said.

But defense lawyer Raymond Cassar noted there's no trail of luxuries. He asked the judge to sentence Keezer to home confinement.

"She didn't use it on herself. She didn't bury it in the ground. She didn't give it to her husband," he said of the missing money. "She gave it away. It's believable."

U.S. District Judge Marianne Battani chose to impose the minimum sentence for a convict to earn time off for good behavior.

"You are like a modern day Robin Hood," Battani said of the folklore hero who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. "Those Robin Hood days are long over."

The embezzlement was discovered a year ago. Authorities say Keezer covered her tracks by preparing false records and disguising the true value of the bank's cash by covering stacks of $1 bills with $100 bills during audits.

A bank official who was in the courtroom declined to comment.

‘Robin Hood’ banker jailed for $340,000 theft - Crime & courts- msnbc.com

[QuePsiXI]

Fuck! I got to Michigan too late.

[Beckwin]

glad she only got the minimum

[Acturus]

Is it wrong that I saw this thread and thought that it was talking about Barry Greenstein?

He -is- the Robin Hood of poker, you know.

http://www.jewishjournal.com/images/...ein_030207.jpg

[Null]

Thought this was a thread about Russel Crowe.

[QuePsiXI]

Or Robert Downey Jr.?

[Ratatapa]

or Robin williams

[ZarakiKujata]

http://saw.ugo.com/images/traps/cary...robin-hood.jpg

Hai guyz

[Mizango]

Ay, Blinkin!

[Resin]

"We been had! We been took! We been led astray! We been run amok!"

Love that movie.

[Acturus]

Ay, Blinkin!

Did you say, "Abe Lincoln?"

http://blog.crowolf.org/wp-content/u...05/blinkin.gif

[Mizango]

Did you say, "Abe Lincoln?"

http://blog.crowolf.org/wp-content/u...05/blinkin.gif

LOL

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

Well played, sirs.

[Sirrus_Asura]

‘Robin Hood’ banker jailed for $340,000 theft - Crime & courts- msnbc.com

What a BAMF.

[Gunitsoldier]

http://saw.ugo.com/images/traps/cary...robin-hood.jpg

Hai guyz

best movie ever made hands down

[ZarakiKujata]

best movie ever made hands down

We talking Robin Hood movies, mel brooks movies, or just cinema in general?

[pohibaba]

I don't really have a problem with only giving her the minimum prison sentence, as she clearly isn't a threat to society as a whole, but I would make her pay back the money she stole from the bank; as she said,

"I would take other people's problems and make them my problems," Keezer told the judge.

[Murdock]

best movie ever made hands down

QFT

[Kaylia]

Only problem I see with this is that she wasn't helping needy people, but people who don't know how to invest their money properly.

Well, I hope she had a good eye to find out who really needed help.

[Khamsin]

It doesn't make it any less of a crime if she gave it away. The only saving grace is that it wasn't spent on further illegal activities, like drugs, weapons, or funding more schemes. That's probably why she got the minimum sentence, not because the judge thought giving it away was a noble sentiment.

Besides, how do they know she didn't bury it in the ground? 1 year in jail is a small price to pay for $340,000. She can just go dig it up when she gets out. And she'll need it, too, because no one is going to hire her after this.