A federal judge earlier this year cut four years off of both of Uresti’s sentences. Uresti’s now slated to serve about five years and 10 months.
, one of Uresti’s lawyers, said he didn’t know anything about the longtime Democratic lawmaker helping investigators.Watts said he believed the reason Uresti will serve far less time than his sentence called for is theUnder the law, federal inmates can earn up to 54 days of good time credit for every year of their imposed sentence rather than every year of their sentenced served.
Uresti also may have received credit for teaching classes when he was locked up in a Louisiana prison, Watts said. Uresti is now at the“He was the senior citizen of the prison, if you will, teaching all these guys,” Watts said. That included classes for inmates to earn their high school equivalency diplomas.Court records show the judge conducted a sealed hearing in both cases Nov. 18. That was after Uresti’s counsel and prosecutors each filed sealed documents the same week.
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