Sentencing has been postponed for one Maneesh Gupta, age 47 for embezzling millions of dollars from Prince William County while he was the head of the IT Department in Prince William County government.
Insidenova.com:
Gupta was set to be sentenced Thursday, but the sentencing was continued to Nov. 3.
At Thursday’s hearing, Prince William Circuit Court Judge Richard B. Potter formally accepted a plea agreement in the case.
According to the terms of the agreement, Gupta will be sentenced to serve three years in prison, with another 48 years suspended and 10 years of probation and to repay $3.7 million the county lost in the scheme.
Prosecutors said Gupta and three other men created a company and arranged for most of the OIT office’s bids to be awarded to that company, between 2004 and April 2009.
I am offended. 3 years? 48 suspended? Why? $3.7 million bucks is a lot of money. How about 20 years for being a thief and if his relatives repay the money he took, then he gets to come out after 20 years. I think he got slapped on the wrist. How long does he have to repay the money he took? What happens if he doesn’t? Will he go back to prison?
This dude has always managed to find a way to find a short cut. I feel confident he will find a way to never repay that money. I hope the County has a back up plan.
Corruption? in Government? I don’t believe it…not a word of it!
@Slowpoke Rodriguez
Only the best and brightest..
marin, trying to straighten out where things go.
The above statement was where I thought you had said something about a silly joke.
I find that statement very offensive about govt. workers. I just find it insulting as a person who worked for govt. most of their lives, as did my family, and do many of my friends. Many people on this blog also work for govt.
I don’t know what causes you to feel that way but you have to know that it is insulting to people. This is just not the place to be expressing yourself about how you feel about public service.
I would imagine that my comment above would only bother people that are highly sensitive or did something against the public interest.
I also see a difference between “public service” and government.
Perhaps because you have said it sos many times here ….about the brightest and the best….I don’t think implicitely suggesting someone is mediocre is particularly flattering and those who take offense are not necessarily think skinned.
If I wasn’t mediocre I’d be inventing the next iPhone or Facebook…….