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- White-collar workers, 3 8 about one of them, said the thin e percent, up from 3.5 analyst, who declined use of hit wiijv dow|. theEx-Mavor Martin £i by 1‘ Gets Four Years |renit BKOWNSV1LLE, Texas (AF the sentence if restitution was are« — Former longtime I-a redo made, but added that restitu- tanMayor J.C Martin Jr was sen- Uon would not be enough. staj»* lei iced today to four years in “If 1 let him pay the money T* prison and fined ll.uoo on back, it would be a free ticket couH charges that he bilked the city for public officials to do that,” flati» out of more than $200,000 Garza said pecU S District Judge Keynaldo The 64 year-old former mu* Garza could have sentenced mayor pleaded guilty May 21 to pre* Martin to five years. Garza charges that he used the mail to ere6, gave Martin 120 days to make defraud the city The charge nuii- restitution of $237,838, w hich the alleged Martm used material thrM judge called “a mere pittance” paid for by city funds 1a* of the money Martm had ' “Public officials live in glass Felt;*e cheated the city out of over the houses,” the stone faced judge tha■» last five of his 24 years in office told Martin, “especially nowa- meGarza said he might amend days.” tioi
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Del Rio News Herald
Del Rio, Texas, US
Fri, Aug 04, 1978
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