A former Deputy Chief of Staff in Atlanta was sentenced to over a year in prison for her role in the Atlanta City Hall bribery scandal.
Evelyn Katrina Taylor-Parks, the deputy chief of staff for former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, was sentenced after she previously collapsed and had to be removed from court in a wheelchair earlier this month during her sentencing.
Her prison sentence comes after she pleaded guilty in federal court to a bribery conspiracy in 2018 where she admitted to taking payments, a handbag, and trips to Chicago and Mexico from a vendor in return for arranging meetings between the vendor and high-ranking employees within the City of Atlanta, U.S Attorney Byung J. Pak said.
“Let Ms. Taylor-Parks’ case be a warning to any and all public officials who abuse their power for personal gain, or for the benefit of their associates to the detriment of the taxpayers: we will thoroughly and appropriately investigate such criminal breaches of fiduciary duty and bring them to justice irrespective of the dollar amount of the ill-gotten gain,” Pak. said in a release announcing the sentencing.
Following the conviction, Parks was sentenced to a year and nine months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, Fox News reports. She also was ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution.
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