Posted on 04/08/2008 5:47:35 PM PDT by Darren McCarty
A former state lawmaker was convicted Monday of mishandling thousands of dollars in charitable contributions and fraudulently obtaining a $150,000 loan and was sentenced to six to eight years in prison.
Thomas Wright, the first member of the General Assembly to be expelled from office in 128 years, was immediately taken into custody. He winked at his wife, Joyce, as he left the courtroom.
Wright was convicted of three felony fraud charges, concluding he misused or mishandled donations from two companies totaling $7,400 and used a bogus letter to take out a loan to build health care offices and a museum commemorating Wilmington's 1898 race riots.
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Politicians belong in jail.
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