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Scott Bloch Gets Jail Time Overturned, Court Blames Lawyers

Zoe Schlanger | August 4, 2011, 12:00PM


Geeks On Call and former U.S. Special Counsel Scott Bloch

Scott Bloch, the former Bush administration official who pleaded guilty to using Geeks On Call to scrub his computer while under investigation for retaliating against his employees, has just had his month-long jail sentence overturned.

Bloch pleaded guilty to misdemenor contempt of Congress in February 2010, which carried a sentence of "not less than one month nor more than twelve months" in jail, according to statute. As TPM reported in July, Bloch's lawyers had worked out a plea deal that would keep him out of prison.

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