NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The former board chairperson of a Connecticut energy cooperative and estranged husband of a California congresswoman was sentenced Wednesday to six months in prison for using public funds to pay for lavish trips to the Kentucky Derby and a luxury golf resort.
James Sullivan, 56, a one-time Democratic congressional candidate in Connecticut, was convicted of helping plan trips in 2015 and 2016 for dozens of top staff, board members and family members totaling $800,000. Prosecutors said the trips were unrelated to the business of the Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative, which receives federal funding from the U.S. Department of Energy.
The $800,000 included travel expenses, private chartered airfare, first-class hotel accommodations, meals, tickets to sporting events, golf fees, souvenirs and gifts, federal prosecutors said.
For a trip to the Kentucky Derby trip in 2015, which prosecutors said had an average cost of approximately $9,000 per guest, Sullivan brought his son, brother and sister-in-law, as well as a woman he knew and her friend.
Sullivan is married to Democratic U.S. Rep. Linda Sanchez, who dropped her bid for chair of the House Democratic Caucus after Sullivan’s indictment in 2018. Connecticut court records indicate the couple is going through divorce proceedings. more here
SHE FOUND SOMEBODY TO MARRY??
A “a serious lapse of judgment”? Oh, really?
I guess if you are a democrat it doesn’t become fraud and theft until you scam a $Million. He was just under the threshold at $900,000.
6 Months in a country club federal prison?
Who said anything about the Two Tiered Judicial System?
Is she the “Dirty Sanchez” I’ve heard about?
The hair gives it away.
Just imagine how glorious it would be if the really ‘BIG FISH’ were sentenced to prison.
Wow , this should be all over the MSM! Oh wait…never mind…democrat.
But she’s such a sweetheart, when she’s not being a racist, nasty harpy.
“…Sullivan, the second of three people to be sentenced this week in the scheme, apologized in court and called the trips “a serious lapse of judgment,”…”
What he meant to say us that the District Attorney displayed “a serious lapse of judgement” for prosecuting him. If you like your job and its perqs, you don’t do that to democrats.
Demoncrats… what do you expect?
Gypsies, Tramps, Thieves, and the Mex Cartel. That’s Cali politics. I watched this moron go down in flames live. Nice try you ignorant bitch.
“Sorry mam, that’s not my account”. Fcking priceless.
I’d prefer prison over that.🤮
“A second case against Sullivan and the energy cooperative’s former CEO is still pending related to $100,000 of Sullivan’s personal and travel expenses, including several entries that included expenses for Sanchez, such as travel to the Kentucky Derby and to Key West, Florida, in 2014.”
Looks like this may rope her in, too.
Perfect example of a wise Latina beaner. Our government would function better if it were run by random people from the phonebook.
shocked
shocked I tell ya