Mueller says Paul Manafort should serve 19-24 years in prison for non-violent white collar and process crimes. Sammy ‘The Bull’ Gravano killed 26 people and only did around seven years. Still think Muller isn’t running a political persecutio n squad?

Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by. View all posts by Jim Bowman