Posted on 06/25/2002 12:22:40 PM PDT by robowombat
While most all of the stories of bitter troubles in Raleigh today are about the state's troubled budget and redistricting battles, an unrelated - but little-noted - one involving a person connected to the legislature happened about a week and a half ago, when the legislature's Assistant Sergeant-At-Arms was sentenced on felony charges.
Maxine Holley - who had pled guilty on Feb. 4 to charges of making false statements to a federal agency - was sentenced to six months electronic house arrest, community service, and two years probation in what was a welfare-fraud case. The 58-year-old former chairman of the Benson Housing Authority was also ordered to repay that public-housing agency the $48,762 she had scammed from it.
Court papers reveal that Holley had gotten subsidized housing by lying about her income while a public-housing tenant - notably her salary as the legislature's Assistant Sergeant-At-Arms, as well as her salary as a magistrate and her retirement income. She had also lied about her household income by omitting from her public-housing application the fact that her son and his wife were living with her - as well as their income - which cheated the housing authority she supervised out of money because it based its rents on both the number of people per household as well as on total household income. http://www.alamanceind.com/local/local_1.html
Now you're just being redundant. Try to conserve on bandwidth.
Excerpt fron NC Statute 120-37.
Article 8. Elected Officers.
§ 120-37. Elected officers; salaries; staff. (a)At the convening of the first session of the General Assembly following each biennial election of members of the General Assembly, each house shall elect a principal clerk for a term of two years, subject to the condition that each officer shall serve at the pleasure of the house that elected him or her and until his or her successor is elected. The reading clerk and sergeant-at-arms of the Senate shall serve for terms of two years, subject to the condition that each serves at the pleasure of the Senate and until the officer's successor is elected. The reading clerk and sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives shall serve as provided in the rules of the House.
(b) The sergeant-at-arms and the reading clerk in each house shall be paid a salary of two hundred eighty-six dollars ($286.00) per week plus subsistence at the same daily rate provided for members of the General Assembly, plus mileage at the rate provided for members of the General Assembly for one round trip only from their homes to Raleigh and return. The sergeants-at-arms shall serve during sessions of the General Assembly and at such time prior to the convening of, and subsequent to adjournment or recess of, sessions as may be authorized by the Legislative Services Commission. The reading clerks shall serve during sessions only.
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