Letter to the Judge

So, many highlights. Malone argues still that he didn't break the law in San Diego, sort-of. The wiretaps in San Diego where he talks about those politicians were only Malone lying to his boss, Galardi: "Any blame I laid at there (sic) feet in my taped conversations with Mike Galardi was designed to help keep my job, it paid very well and I couldn't have replaced it." Well, this does raise a question: if lying is what Lance Malone explains needed to be done to keep his job could he possibly be a person willing to lie to a judge to keep his freedom?

The issue the judge had to decide at sentencing is if Malone took bribes while a County Commissioner as the government argued or only delivered them to others after he left the County Commission. If the judge believed the government then Malone's sentence got enhanced. I am sure by total coincidence, this very issue happend to be at the center of why Malone in the letter claims he did not take an earlier plea offer, because in Malone's convoluted explanation to the judge, to do so would have violated his special brand of integrity. I could quote, but go ahead read this for yourself, it's priceless. The judge did not believe Malone, by the way. Not even a bit. Yesterday he was sentenced to a stiff 6 years.