Everyone who says "15 years is too much"...
The judge was trying to make an example of them to discourage this behaviour in the future. Do you HONESTLY believe that these people will ACTUALLY serve all 15 years and not get an early release ?
They will be released within the year on good behavior and maybe a probationary period thereafter. The sentence is just there to show people that what those people did was deplorable, and deserves no mercy.
And honestly... if you are caught red-handed commiting a crime that you KNOW is against the law, how can ANY sentence be excessive ? You knowingly, and willingly commited a felony. Why should anyone give you ANY sympathy. It's not like they could have been framed or that they didn't realise what they were doing.
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