Chauncey Mayfield (Photo: Kellogg School of Management)
You might think that someone busted for stealing $3 million from the Detroit Police and Fire Pension Fund and dishing out $187,000 worth of bribes to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and others would serve some time in prison.
Think again.
Florida businessman Chauncey Mayfield, 59, who did all those things, was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds to three years probation and 150 hours of community service, Robert Snell of The Detroit News reports.
The sentence comes more than two years after Mayfield struck a plea deal with federal prosecutors and agreed to testify during last fall’s pension fund corruption trial. Since he was charged in 2012, he's helped arrange to repay the money he stole.
Prosecutors pushed for leniency because he helped prosecute people including ex-Detroit Treasurer Jeffrey Beasley.
