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A Republican sheriff in South Carolina, a deep red state, was reamed out by a judge after being convicted \u2014 and sentenced to 41 months in prison \u2014 for a torrent of corrupt behavior.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSouth Carolina ex-sheriff Chuck Wright of Spartanburg County was sentenced Tuesday to the maximum recommended sentence \u2014 41 months in prison,\u201d reported The State\u2019s John Monk. \u201cThe sentence to Wright, 61, by U.S. Judge Timothy Cain was delivered before a packed courtroom at the Greenville federal courthouse. In the audience were FBI and State Law Enforcement Division agents. The hearing lasted more than three hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monk then quoted Cain, who was appointed by President Barack Obama but was a former law associate of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), harshly denouncing Wright.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver time, the defendant did not honor his oath,\u201d Cain told Wright and the rest of the courtroom regarding the former sheriff\u2019s extensive theft. In addition to the lengthy sentence, which Cain said he hopes will deter other wrongdoers in the police department, he also forced Wright to pay $462,866 in restitution for the money he stole through his office.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish the guidelines would have been more because Chuck Wright deserved more,\u201d Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said after the sentencing. \u201cHe was a total embarrassment, not only to sheriffs, but to all law enforcement in the state. For anyone who wears the badge, he betrayed them all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wright was proved to have stolen $89,000 from his police department\u2019s Benevolence Fund charity, as well as to charge the government for thousands of dollars worth of personal items. Additionally, Wright bullied employees to give him prescription drugs like oxycodone that they or their families were taking legally and put a cousin on his payroll for a $57,000-per-year job in which he did not do anything. Because he had so much power and was proved to have abused it, Cain sentenced him to the greatest extent legally possible, even though traditionally he would not have been given the maximum potential legal punishment.<\/p>\n

\u201cSentences for nonviolent federal crimes are usually much less than the 41 months that Wright wound up getting, even though he hired two experienced criminal defense lawyers to organize and plead his case in the most sympathetic manner possible,\u201d Monk reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the surface, Chuck Wright was the squeaky-clean sheriff of Spartanburg County, one of South Carolina\u2019s largest and most prosperous areas,\u201d Monk wrote for The State on Monday. \u201cHe had risen from deputy to the county\u2019s most popular elected official, and he oversaw a department of 600-plus deputies, detention officers and civilian staff. But beneath the above-reproach image and below the radar of public oversight, Wright was crooked \u2014 stealing from a charity fund, giving his cousin a no-work job and bullying employees to turn over to him painkilling drugs they got for legitimate medical purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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