Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Phipps Goes to Jail

Former N.C. Agriculture Commissioner and heir to the Scott family political dynasty, Meg Scott Phipps, was sentenced to four years of jail time yesterday by a Greenville judge, "for heading a campaign fund-raising conspiracy that became North Carolina's biggest public corruption scandal in modern history." (Raleigh N & O article here)

Phipps, mother of two adolescents, has also lost her license to practice law. Rather than allow her to return home and await assignment to a prison for several weeks, the judge sent Phipps to the Pitt County jail immediately to await her prison assignment.

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