Sentence Lenient In Bribery Case (WDSU New Orleans)
Story date: 2008-02-15 07:15:42
Added on: 2008-02-15 09:00:13
NEW ORLEANS -- The owner of a Baton Rouge construction company who admitted bribing a politically connected Housing Authority of New Orleans contractor in order to get paid for his company's work at an Algiers complex was fined $5,000 and sentenced to two years of probation by a federal judge.
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