Ex-GSA Official Gets Jail Time
The case of Dessie Ruth Nelson, 65, of Oakland, Calif., a longtime General Services Administration employee who pleaded guilty earlier this year to accepting more than $100,000 in bribes and a Caribbean cruise from a firm providing security to federal buildings, has come to a close.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Nelson was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison. She also was ordered to forfeit $138,500 and pay $38,780 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
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Did she lose her retirement? Basically, she got 5 years and an $80,000 fine. At least she got a retirement cruise out of the way before going to the pokey!
Gen X'er Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:52 PMIt's always a little sad and disheartening to see someone throw their career and their life away like Ms. Nelson did. We'll never know whether it was a sense of entitlement, the easy money, the sense of being "smarter" than the people around her, or some other reason that made her choose to take a bribe. And it was a CHOICE... no one held a gun to her head and made her do it. In any case, Ms. Nelson has ruined her life for nothing. The person who bribed her is also the one who sold her out for a better deal.
Jimmy Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:04 PM