Power couple pays for ill-gotten gains
by Michael C. Bender | March 28th, 2009
Former County Commissioner Mary McCarty and her husband, Kevin, leave court Friday. A federal prosecutor said Mary McCarty repeatedly concealed her financial relationship to those her votes benefited. Kevin McCarty concealed his wife's crimes or made them easier to commit, the prosecutor said. (Brandon Kruse|Palm Beach Post)
Through the wife’s county commission votes, she and her husband profited for a decade or more.
On Friday, both paid a price.
At a 10:30 a.m. hearing, former Palm Beach County Commissioner Mary McCarty pleaded guilty to conspiring to deprive the public of her honest services. She is scheduled to be sentenced June 4 to as much as five years in prison.
At 3 p.m., a federal judge sentenced Kevin McCarty, ex-chairman of the South Florida Water Management District, to eight months in prison, forfeiture of the couple’s $272,000 in ill-gotten gains and a $5,000 fine. He’s scheduled to enter prison near Miami on May 4.
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March 28th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Are they an R or a D? I suspect a D, since in no report has their political stance been mentioned.
March 28th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
They are democrats going to jail as usual but the liberal media will not mention that they are big time Ds