Former DISD Official Sentenced to 11 Years
Submitted by Allen Gwinn on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 12:04.
US District Judge Sam Lindsay has sentenced 60-year old former DISD Technology Chief Ruben Bohuchot to 132 months in prison with another 3 years of supervised probation.
Bohuchot was ordered to surrender to the Federal Bureau of Prisons on January 20.
Bohuchot, who has health issues, requested assignment to a medical facility. According to the Judge, the request will be up to the Bureau of Prisons.
Bohuchot's wife is also ill and was unable to attend his sentencing.
Prosecutors had asked for more than 30 years in prison based on federal sentencing guidelines.
Judge Lindsay called the guidelines "overkill" and opted for the much-reduced sentence calling 11-years "enough of a deterrent."
The Judge also factored in Bohuchot's age and his lack of a criminal history noting that with age, people tend to have more of a capacity to avoid "re-offending."
Judge Lindsay acknowledged that Bohuchot "did good" for the District. The Judge added that Bohuchot's good works was not justification for committing crimes.
Bohuchot was convicted, along with a former vendor Frankie Wong in an elaborate scheme to defraud the District of money (read the DOJ press release).
Dallas.Org Associate Reporter Dee Dee Massey contributed to this report.
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yep ... pod person... or is he the real human being and we are the pod people.
well speak for yourself..
I am too old to be .... So is this the hip new attitude. It seems to fit in some ways, especially the marketer's dream.
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A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.
The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.
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2. pod person 24 up, 13 down
A mindless, pliable person who cannot make an informed decision for themselves. A marketers dream. Characterized by a blank glaze, frequent toe tapping and head nodding. The most distinguishing characteristic of a Pod Person is the white ear-buds which attach to their life support.
A Pod Person is most often seen on any public transit system.
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by ltlefrog Apr 22, 2006 share this add comment
3. pod person 20 up, 15 down
Someone who mindlessly goes along with the official dogma or party line. One who never questions ideas or statements or thinks for themselves preferring to passively absorb ready made sound bites and pre-digested ideas.
Since he became a born again christian he's turned into a real pod person. Next he'll be chanting and burning incense.
Off Topic: What owning an SUV says about you.
THE AUTO INDUSTRY SAYS THAT SUV DRIVERS ARE SELFISH AND INSECURE
People who tool around in hulking, big-ass sport utility vehicles have been getting dissed a lot lately, but no one has raked them over the coals like the people who sold them the SUVs in the first place. The multibillion-dollar auto industry does extensive research into its customers, and lately that research has focused quite a bit on the people who buy SUVs.
Investigative reporter Keith Bradsher of the New York Times has looked into the SUV phenomenon for years. He's read marketing reports meant only to be seen within the industry; he's interviewed marketing executives from the car companies and from outside research firms. The industry has come to some unflattering conclusions about the people who buy its SUVs.
As summarized by Bradsher: They tend to be people who are insecure and vain. They are frequently nervous about their marriages and uncomfortable about parenthood. They often lack confidence in their driving skills. Above all, they are apt to be self-centered and self-absorbed, with little interest in their neighbors and communities.... They are more restless, more sybaritic, and less social than most Americans are. They tend to like fine restaurants a lot more than off-road driving, seldom go to church and have limited interest in doing volunteer work to help others.
David Bostwick, the director of market research at Chrysler, told Bradsher: "We have a basic resistance in our society to admitting that we are parents, and no longer able to go out and find another mate. If you have a sport utility, you can have the smoked windows, put the children in the back and pretend you're still single."
Bostwick says that compared to those who buy similarly large minivans, SUV drivers are selfish: Sport utility people say, "I already have two kids, I don't need 20." Then we talk to the people who have minivans and they say, "I don't have two kids, I have 20 — all the kids in the neighborhood." One of General Motors' top engineers also spoke of the difference between minivanners and SUVers: "SUV owners want to be more like, 'I'm in control of the people around me.'" He went on: With the sport utility buyers, it's more of an image thing. Sport utility buyers tend to be more like, "I wonder how people view me," and are more willing to trade off flexibility or functionality to get that.
The executive VP for North American auto operations at Honda revealed: "The people who buy SUVs are in many cases buying the outside first and then the inside. They are buying the image of the SUV first, and then the functionality." Jim Bulin, a former Ford strategist who started his own marketing firm, told Bradsher: "It's about not letting anything get in your way and, in the extreme, about intimidating others to get out of your way."
Daniel A. Gorell, who also used to market for Ford and now has his own firm, says simply that SUV drivers are "less giving, less oriented toward others." Defenders of SUVs have attacked Bradsher for reporting these things, but they always forget the crucial point: Bradsher isn't the one slamming SUV owners — it's the auto industry itself.
Bohuchot sentencing, it's about time!
Enjoy your time reading books and playing chess. You should be serving time with some of your P-Card buddies.