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Disgraced Virginia Sheriff Gets 12 Years for Bribery and Corruption

Loaded on Nov. 30, 2022 by Ashleigh Dye published in Prison Legal News December, 2022, page 48
Filed under: Police/Govt Misconduct, Bribery/Extortion/Theft. Location: Virginia.

by Ashleigh N. Dye

On May 19, 2022, the federal court for the Eastern District of Virginia sentenced former Norfolk Sheriff Robert McCabe, to 12 years in federal prison for his role in a jail bribery scheme that went on for more than two decades. A jury convicted McCabe in ...

 

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