Thread: TX-Handy pleads guilty, admits little

Handy pleads guilty, admits little
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Commissioner to resign her seat after felony conviction
March 08, 2010 4:40 PM
By JEREMY ROEBUCK

McALLEN — Sylvia Handy has maintained since her arrest last year that she never violated the trust of the voters who elected her to office. to plead guilty just say so, but don’t stand here and lie about it.â€

Seems to me to be just another example of how politicians are allowed to skirt the full force of the laws they are supposed to enforce. Would or could an ordinary citizen get such kid glove treatment?

Former county commissioner denies culpability as sentencing date approaches
May 04, 2010 12:06 AM
Jeremy Roebuck

McALLEN — Her sentencing date is nearly two months away. But the wrangling over how much time — if any — former Hidalgo County Commissioner Sylvia Handy should spend in prison has already begun.

The federal government continues to maintain that she concocted an elaborate scheme to avoid paying for housekeeping and babysitting services between 2001 and 2007 by putting her undocumented domestic help on the county payroll.

But in court filings last week, Handy’s defense shot down prosecutors’ descriptions of these so-called “ghostâ€