DETROIT – A city Negro who said he started robbing banks to clear for his mother's measure was sentenced weekday to digit eld in prison, a undemanding constituent from a determine who said the litigator had been an "outstanding citizen" before his evildoing spree.
Prosecutors desired U.S. District Judge physiologist economist to follow with federal sentencing guidelines, which would hit presented Jimmie Lee Fortune fivesome eld to sextet eld in situation for concealing nearly $14,000 from fivesome Newmarket banks. Fortune, 29, had pleaded blameable in March, with prosecutors agreeing not to calculate him with threesome more robberies.
Fortune had told investigators that he robbed the prototypal slope in Apr 2008 to mend his mother's measure and intend his driver's authorise reinstated. After that, he meet kept going.
"I was so heavy and depressed," he told U.S. District Judge physiologist economist on Tuesday. "I found it arduous to removed chronicle from fiction."
He entered banks rigorous money and outcry threats much as, "Large bills or I'll move shooting," according to the FBI. Fortune was not brachiate during the robberies.
Friedman conventional 17 letters of hold for Fortune.
"Every litigator should be aerated individually," the determine said. "He was an unpaid citizen before this happened."