Former WV Supreme Court Justice Sentenced to 24 Months in Federal Prison

Former West Virginia Supreme Court justice Allen Loughry, author of a book chronicling political corruption, was sentenced Wednesday to 24 months in federal prison on 10 federal charges including mail fraud and wire fraud, reports the Charleston Gazette-Mail.

Loughry also was placed on three years supervisory release, fined $10,000 and ordered to pay $1,273 in restitution, according to the Gazette-Mail‘s Phil Kabler.

The charges against Loughry, who resigned from the court last October, included misuse of state vehicles and credit cards for personal travel; lying to federal investigators about that travel, as well as about having a state-owned antique desk in his home; and defrauding a legal institute by accepting a travel reimbursement when he had used a state vehicle for the trip.

Read the Gazette-Mail article.