04-28-2009, 05:08 AM
Does anyone think LCSO will learn from this?
Ex-sheriff gets 5½ years for witness tampering - SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP): A former Southern California sheriff has been sentenced to 5½ years in prison for tampering with a witness in his public corruption case.
U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford sentenced Michael Carona on Monday near the 6½-year term that probation officials had recommended.
During the hearing, Carona thanked the judge for the opportunity to fight the charges against him.
The disgraced ex-lawman also was fined $125,000 and must serve two years of probation after his release.
Carona was indicted on sweeping public corruption charges in 2007 and stepped down from the nation's fifth-largest sheriff's department.
In January, the jury rejected the heart of the case and convicted Carona of a single count of witness tampering.
Ex-sheriff gets 5½ years for witness tampering - SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP): A former Southern California sheriff has been sentenced to 5½ years in prison for tampering with a witness in his public corruption case.
U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford sentenced Michael Carona on Monday near the 6½-year term that probation officials had recommended.
During the hearing, Carona thanked the judge for the opportunity to fight the charges against him.
The disgraced ex-lawman also was fined $125,000 and must serve two years of probation after his release.
Carona was indicted on sweeping public corruption charges in 2007 and stepped down from the nation's fifth-largest sheriff's department.
In January, the jury rejected the heart of the case and convicted Carona of a single count of witness tampering.