It is not pretty to watch someone beg, but that is what Charlotte political consultant and former N.C. lotto commissioner Kevin Geddings has been reduced to doing.
Geddings is flat-out begging the court for a light sentence on his mail fraud conviction. This after another Jim Black crony, former legislator Michael Decker, got four years and a $50,000 fine on his bribery charge. And Decker, by all accounts, cooperated with prosecutors.
Geddings, in contrast, spurned a plea deal and quite possibly committed perjury on the witness stand during his trial — if the trial judge if to be believed.
The law can be tricky, but if you want to make a judge pig-biting mad at you, go ahead and lie in a courtroom.
Let’s be clear on this — Lying is an occupational skill for the Black gang. In fact, you don’t get to join unless you demonstrate some ability in the field. Geddings, like other members of the cabal, had multiple opportunities to pull out and come clean. Multiple. He choose not to do so.
And now the court must factor those choices — those windows on Geddings’ moral character — into its calculation of a just punishment.
