Former New York State Democratic Sen. Shirley Huntley was sentenced to a year and one day in prison and three years probation today for embezzling $87,000 from a nonprofit she founded, reports the New York Post:
Huntley, 74, had asked Brooklyn federal court Judge Jack Weinstein for a non-jail sentence, citing her daughter's brain aneurysm.
Huntley was ordered to pay back the $87,000 she spent on shopping sprees.
She already is on probation for five years after being sentenced in March in Nassau County Supreme court for tampering with physical evidence in the case against her niece Lynn Smith and her political aide Patricia Savage, who looted funds from another non-profit organization.
Additionally, Huntley secretly recorded her Democratic colleagues for the FBI to win leniency for her crimes.
All six, and two political operatives remain under investigation by Brooklyn federal prosecutors. A ninth person she taped, city Councilman Ruben Wills, is not longer under investigation by that office.
