Comer to serve 14 months
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Mike Comer, former treasurer of the Glenmore Community Association and son-in-law of the late Glenmore developer Frank Kessler, will spend the next 14 months in jail for embezzling $465,000 from the association, according to both the Charlottesville Newsplex and NBC29. On Tuesday, August 4, Albemarle County Circuit Court Judge Cheryl Higgins sentenced Comer, who pleaded guilty in April, to 15 years in prison with all but 18 months suspended. He has already served four months.
LET SEE 14 MONTHS $465K THATS ABOUT $989.00 A DAY FOR BEING IN THE CKINK I THINK I COULD HACK THAT.THEM AGAIN I WOULD HAVE TAKEN ALL “MY” ASSOCIATIONS MONEY JUST CAUSE THIER SUCH BONEHEAD CONTROL FREEKS.
Mike, what happen to the 2.5 million dollar line of credit that Glenmore had before Frank dead?
Did they audit all the Kessler-owned companies that Comer may have access to the accounts?
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA I CANT STOP IT….ONE OF THESE DAYS SOMEONE WHO IS NOT RICH MAY EVEN HAVE JUSTICE SERVED TO THEM…NAW….
wasn’t there a local, poorer woman that embezzled 24K that went away for 2 full years? this sentence clearly shows judicial bias in favor of the well to do. by suspending %90 of Comer’s sentence, Cheryl Higgins shows that being a rich white guy is the way to get a slap on the wrist in her courtroom. This was purely a matter of her discretion and her choice was to have this man out of jail in less than two years.
Albemarle needs to clean house.
my mistake.
http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/cdp-news-local/2009/oct/03/woman_gets_12_months_jail_for_embezzling-ar-68258/
She embezzled 24K and was sent away for 12 months. He embezzled 465K and was sent away for 14 months.
He belongs to a country club, she doesn’t.
That’s justice, Central Virginia style! What a joke.
Why should ANY citizen believe that our local judiciary is fair, just or impartial when the FACTS are so contrary to this notion?
Nah man, I heard there was a local, poorer woman who took a dime out of the tip jar at Starbucks and they sent her away for life. yeah man…it’s messed up out there
The Daily Progress has the Comer story on its front page, though not as the lead. But it’s not on the website.
Hmmmmm…..
rich man, mock away. the facts are as plain as black and white. He went on the lam, she didn’t. They both copped pleas.
12 months vs. 14 months.
24K vs. 465K
That is central virginia jurisprudence at its best right there. that is the best our local legal community can do.
sisk gets out in a year for killing a guy. now this.
the people that are responsible for our local criminal justice system should be completely ashamed of themselves. by choosing to be lenient when the perpetrator is from the country club, our local judiciary makes a mockery of the very thing they are supposed to represent.
they can wrap themselves in the flag of America, UVA and Thomas Jefferson all they want, but they do NOT serve the public by having two standards of justice.
Just wait, George Hugeley’s trial is next…let’s see what happens then….
Don’t forget, Cheryl Higgins is on the bench for the Hugeley case.
Her former law partner is Hugeley’s defense attorney.
Injustice
You can’t even get your fact straights, and you are simply mistaken.
Corner is serving 18 months not 14 (he’s already served 4), plus 162 more months if he screws up on parole. Much of the money taken has been paid back, according to the other article.
Gallimore stole at least $32K, not $24K. She was also stealing from a kid’s organization. On top of that, she had multiple other felonies charged against her.
You say he was on the lam…was he actually out on bail or wanted by the police when he went missing? If not, he wasn’t on the lam. And he came back on his own accord.
There are enough instances of injustices out there without turning everything into one.
The judge said yesterday a major factor in Comer’s sentence was that he was able to pay back all the money. I don’t think Gallimore was able to pay back the money.
Plus, for the record, Comer did disappear into the Nelson County woods for several days when people, and police, were looking for him. He came back on his own.
I’m not saying the sentence is too much or too little, but those are the facts behind it, according to the judge.
Comer did not personally pay the money back to the association so he should still be held responsible. If this was someone from a poor neighborhood doing this crime and running away to avoid arrest when it was discovered he would not have gotten bail and he would have been sentence to fifteen to life. Equal justice is just another sorry solgan that has outlived its meaning.
15 to life? For embezzlement? Impossible.
Besides, Corner did get 15 years himself.
If it was up to me, I would end the war on drugs and free up prison so people like this guy would have to do more time.
You are right he got 15 and he should be serving all of them as he should know better. He was already living a privelge life and he still chose to steal. He should be given more time than the average uneducated person who does the same crime.
Comer was gone for a month! He was definitely on the lam.
We’ll see what how they sentence Kevin O’Connor, the ex-Treas. for Mill Creek HOA who embezzled maybe 1/10 of what Comer did. He is to be sentenced soon. Very comparable cases.
And Comer didn’t personally pay the money back. The Kessler Fam had to sell the equestrian center, the Clubhouse operations, Real Estate III (to Better Homes) and other properties to raise the money to pay this back to the HOA. Frank would turn over in his grave if he could see this.
I will never understand how Comer was allowed bond when he was on the lam for a month.
Likewise, I will never understand why it was taken at face value that he stole that money to prop up the family business. Was this ever proven? Surely they had at least one real estate attorney. If the business was in trouble, then why not go to the family for a loan? Surely Frank Kessler left his heirs a considerable amount of liquid assets.
The whole thing just sounds fishy. I still want to know where he was when he went missing. Was he living in the woods? Was he staying with someone in the Wintergreen area?
These are pretty basic questions that no one in the media appears to be asking.
I think Comer should sign on to ReadtheHook.com from prison and tell us his side of the story.
His side of the story is irrelevant as a thief he would have zero creditability. I am more concern about a broken justice system where the rich and privilege can do the crime and expect nothing but a slap on the wrist.
As for Hugeley - Higgins on the bench…my point exactly….