John Drayman, the former mayor of the city of Glendale, California, has been sentenced to a year in prison after being found guilty of embezzling over $300,000 at a Montrose farmer's market.
According to the Glendale News-Press, 55-year-old Drayman plead guilty last March to the charges of funds embezzling he was accused of, as well as perjury and false statements.
After the sentence was given, the Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court, Stephen Marcus, compared the former mayor to other public officials from California who have taken the headlines due to corruption cases.
"In our world today, especially recently, every time you open the newspaper, you see politicians ripping off the public. And now we have Mr. Drayman who is now part of this landscape," said Judge Marcus.
The judge also ordered Drayman to pay $304,853 in restitutions to the Montrose Shopping Park Association and another $14,016 to the state's Franchise Tax Board, and little over $1,000 in fines, according to 89.3 KPCC.
Drayman was accused in 2012 of 28 crimes which were committed between 2004 and 2011, when he was the director of the Montrose Shopping Park Association, a farmer's market which operates every Sunday in Glendale.
Likewise, the accused was the Mayor of the city from April 2008 to April 2009, when the first accusations were presented against him.
Drayman's case is just one more in a series of scandals involving California politicians, with the arrest of democrat Senator Leland Yee being the most recent.
Leland Yee was arrested along with 28 others on Wednesday, March 26 in a series of raids carried out by various agencies, led by the FBI, accused of accepting bribes and corruption, among other charges, and is linked with accepting $42,800 in campaign contributions that an FBI agent gave to one of his assistants, according to the CBS.
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