Opening Day fastball! Feds putting the squeeze on “unnamed” co-conspirator Rowland in Wilson-Foley and Foley pleadings

johnnyGSo why didn’t the feds indict John Grosvenor Rowland, the disgraced former governor, to coincide with the guilty pleas yesterday of Lisa Wilson-Foley and her husband, Brian Foley? Well, for starters, because they didn’t have to. His mere reference as an unnamed “co-conspirator” is enough to send us to the potential penalties that could be added to the felonious resume that landed him in federal prison for 10 months.

(d) Penalties; defenses; mitigation of offenses.

(1) (A) Any person who knowingly and willfully commits a violation of any provision of this Act which involves the making, receiving, or reporting of any contribution, donation or expenditure—

(i) aggregating $25,000 or more during a calendar year shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both; or

(ii) aggregating $2,000 or more (but less than $25,000) during a calendar year shall be fined under such title, or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.1

The Blogster notices that the announcement of the pleas yesterday came at just about the precise moment that Curtis Granderson, former Yankee slugger now playing right field for the Mets, was taking a called third strike to end the game with the Nationals and to start the season with three Ks. Ouch.