Ex-mayor in Georgia gets nearly 5 years in prison for defrauding city's COVID relief funds

Biden celebrates COVID relief bill at White HousePresident Joe Biden celebrates the passage of his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief measure in the Ros...

July 21, 2022
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Biden celebrates COVID relief bill at White HousePresident Joe Biden celebrates the passage of his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief measure in the Rose Garden with fellow Democrats. Biden said he promised the American people that help is on the way, and "we've delivered on that promise." (March 12)Federal officials sentenced the former mayor of a Georgia city to almost five years in prison Wednesday, on charges that he used pandemic relief funds to pay multiple personal expenses, including his lakefront home's mortgage and an associate's political advertising costs.

Jared Weber