Image via Wikipedia12:02 a.m. UPDATE:
Former Temple City Mayor Cathe Wilson collapsed in a Norwalk courtroom after being sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday. Her condition is not know at this time. Paramedics rushed to a local hospital. As soon as an update about her condition is released to the media, I will update this post.
By Randy Economy
www.Economy4ABC.Blogspot.com
Thursday, June 23, 2011
1:43 p.m.
LOS ANGELES –
Image via WikipediaFormer Temple City Mayor Cathe Wilson has a new title today. She is now Inmate Cathe Wilson, as in convicted felon Wilson.Temple City is a wasteland of corruption politicians. Today the 78 year old ex-Mayor was sentenced to four years in state prison following her conviction last month of bribery and perjury charges involving a development in the San Gabriel Valley city.
She will be 82 when she is released, but if she is a "good girl" while in the slammer, she might get out around her 80th birthday.
Deputy District Attorney Sean Hassett of the Public Integrity Division said the Los Angeles Superior Court Superior Court Judge Alex Ricciardulli sentenced the 78-year-old mayor and ordered her to pay $10,000 in restitution.
Wilson was convicted May 2 of three counts of asking for or receiving a bribe and three counts of perjury. The perjury charges involved one count of lying to the Los Angeles County Grand Jury in 2008 and two counts of submitting false material in Fair Political Practices reports.
Wilson, her campaign manager and another former Temple Mayor, Judy Wong, were indicted in June 2009 on charges that cash bribes were demanded and received in 2007 from developer Randy Wang for his Temple City Piazza project. Another council member, David Capra, was charged separately.
Wong, 54, pleaded no contest and was sentenced last year to 16 months in state prison. Scott Carwile, 52, Wilson’s campaign manager, pleaded guilty to a perjury count and was sentenced May 24 to three years probation and one day in county jail. Capra pleaded no contest in 2009 to a misdemeanor charge of failure to report a campaign contribution and agreed to resign from the council.
Prosecutors said earlier that officials from Temple City cooperated with the Public Integrity Division in its investigation.
1 comment:
I don't care how old she is, that is where she belongs. She has been using the Title, "I am the Mayor Of Temple City" to get whatever she wanted whenever she wanted for so long, I am glad she finally got caught for something.
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