Former Bellows Falls, Vt. chief deals on gambling debt .
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The Associated Press
Posted Oct 23, 2009 @ 11:45 AM
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BELLOWS FALLS, Vt. — .The former Bellows Falls village police chief has reached a deal with federal prosecutors over charges he embezzled village money to use at Connecticut casinos.
Prosecutors say John Dunfee will formally enter his plea to one count of federal wire fraud at a sentencing hearing early next year.
Court documents say that in June 2007 when Dunfee was interim chief in Bellows Falls he used a village credit card to pay for gambling trips to casinos.
The same documents say he submitted a payment request for $2,300 to village officials claiming he used the money to buy firearms for new officers. Instead he used the money to pay a credit card charge from a casino.
He resigned in September 2007.
Dunfee could be sentenced to 20 years in prison.
EDITORIAL FOOTNOTE: The article shows that anyone can allegedly get caught up in gambling, in this case a police chief. Are the casinos a problem for people? What can the casinos do about these problems? What do you think?
THE ACCUSED IS PRESUMED INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN A COURT OF LAW.
THESE ARE THE OPINIONS AND IDEAS OF BROKENWING.
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