And so farewell, yet again, to ex-state Sen. Dean Tran, as he is sentenced this afternoon for the third time in less than a year after his one-man crime wave across the Commonwealth.

Tran’s latest sentencing, at 1:30 p.m. in the federal courthouse, will be somewhat anticlimactic, considering that he’s already been locked up now for almost a year.

Eleven months ago, Tran was sentenced to 18 months for the usual Massachusetts-politician crimes – $30,120 in welfare fraud, income-tax evasion, wire fraud, etc.

Then, six months ago, he pleaded guilty in state court to stealing a Colt .45 pistol from an elderly constituent and then lying about it to the cops. For those crimes he received a concurrent sentence with his federal rap.

Today, in the third stop in his Have-Mercy-On-Me-Judge tour, ex-Sen. Tran will be sentenced for obstruction of justice during his COVID fraud conspiracy.

His elder sister, like the former solon a refugee from Vietnam, pleaded guilty last week in that particular scam of her brother’s. You could say the Tran siblings were running an Asian crime syndicate – ungrateful Third World grifters shamelessly robbing their American benefactors.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

Tran got his sister to sign off on his fraudulent attempts to collect a welfare check while employed. She was happy to oblige him. And when the cops questioned her about the scam, she lied.

The recurring question is: When do we start denaturalizing and deporting these sinister foreign kleptomaniacs? Why are they allowed to remain in America?

Anyway, if you can’t make this third stop on the Dean Tran sentencing tour this afternoon, don’t worry. There is at least one more date in the works.

As the feds noted in their pre-sentencing memo Wednesday:

“Tran is under indictment in Suffolk Superior Court for abusing his official position as a State Senator to gain unwarranted privileges arising from using his staff for his reelection campaign.”

By the way, Tran is or was a Republican. Most criminal politicians in Massachusetts are Democrats, but that’s only because there are so many more Democrats in office. When they get the opportunity, Republicans can steal with the best of ‘em.

Another point the feds make in this newest sentencing memo to Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV is that Tran’s fraud was motivated not by need, but by greed.

“Tran’s crimes were not motivated by desperation,” the US attorney wrote. “The PSR (pre-sentencing report) describes Tran’s substantial assets totaling approximately $2.2 million, and include two residences, a Fidelity 401K valued at approximately $943,000 and stocks held by his wife valued at approximately $192,000.”

A multi-millionaire from Ho Chi Minh City, stealing public funds with both hands and then not paying taxes on his ill-gotten gains. But he now claims to be, you guessed it, a victim.

“I was raised in poverty and experienced and suffered extreme racism.”

Of course he did.

That last quote is included in his appeal of his first conviction from last year. He’s a graduate of Brandeis University, and this is how he begins his formal filing to the First Circuit:

“I, Dean A. Tran, is a 6-term city councilor….”

Yes, you is. From Fitchburg.

He may hail originally from Vietnam, but when it comes to making excuses for his abominable behavior, Dean Tran is totally assimilated. He’s a regular Alibi Ike.

He claims he was framed because when the feds came to his home to grab the incriminating documents, he had a flashback… to ‘Nam.

“I blacked out, suffering a medical condition as a result of my PTSD… I was very dazed and confused.”

When he came to, imagine his shock as he discovered “that a Miranda Rights waiver was signed and an interrogation occurred.”

In case you didn’t notice his condition the first time he mentioned it, Sen. Tran repeats it.

“I was dazed and confused, not knowing how to respond to questions….”

Tran’s family and friends have checked in, asking the judge to reject the feds’ request for another 18 months on and after.

This, from a former constituent in Fitchburg named Brian Lawrence:

“I was saddened to see the trouble he had gotten himself into by taking a wrong turn on the Road of Life.”

His wife Kerry also sent a letter to the judge. She was tugging at Judge Saylor’s heartstrings, talking about how hard it is to visit her sticky-fingered, fork-tongued spouse at the nearby federal lock-up known as Devens.

She and his daughters have to go through the metal detectors, she said, which means “we embarrass ourselves with a clear purse (no straps for shoulders allowed) to place pads of tampons in and for it only be seen by everyone as it’s rummaged through when are clearing the detectors.”

File that under, Too Much Information.

But all these humiliations could have been avoided, had the Trans but assimilated enough into their new homeland to absorb the meaning of that ancient American adage:

“Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.”

Probably won’t be any photos this afternoon of Tran coming into the courthouse for sentencing. If you’re already incarcerated, the cops bring the jailbird in through the back door.

But you can check Sen. Tran out at his current web address, bop.gov. That stands for Bureau of Prisons.

Just type in his ID number: 87455-510.

He’s not the first, and he won’t be the last to make a wrong turn on the Road of Life.