CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former West Virginia Supreme Court justice at the center of an impeachment scandal has been sentenced to two years behind bars.
A federal judge in Charleston, West Virginia, sentenced Allen Loughry on Wednesday. He was also ordered to pay $12,000 in fines, restitution and court costs.
Loughry is scheduled to report to prison by April 5.
His lawyer, John Carr, told the court that Loughry has agreed to surrender his law license and not seek public office again.
Loughry was found guilty of 11 counts at his October trial. Most involved mail and wire fraud involving his personal use of state cars and fuel cards. The judge last month threw out a witness tampering conviction.
Loughry repeatedly denied benefiting personally from trips he took when he became a justice in 2013.
By those standards, most of Trump’s Cabinet members should get the chair.
Fuel cards. It’s always the fuel cards that’ll get you.
How is it that a President can use a government-owned building as his personal cash-cow political favor hotel, but a State Supreme Court justice can’t refuel his car?
The entire state of Virginia just breathed a collective, self-affirming sigh of relief.
It’s a tough game…
but it’s always nice to get a score at whack-a-mole —
“There are laws, but no justice!”