Disgraced former state Sen. Efrain Gonzalez’s sweetheart scored a sweetheart deal Monday.
Lucia (Lucy) Sanchez admitted her role in Gonzalez’s theft of $200,000 in public money, but as part of a plea deal with the feds, she faces a likely sentence of between four and 10 months in prison.
Sanchez, 52, pleaded guilty to committing federal program fraud during a hearing before Manhattan Federal Court Judge William Pauley.
Prosecutors say Sanchez gave the Bronx-based nonprofit Pathways for Youth dummy documents to justify payments Pathways made to the West Bronx Neighborhood Association. That money was then used to pay Gonzalez’s personal expenses, Sanchez admitted, including rent a luxury apartment in the Dominican Republic for Gonzalez’s wife.
Sanchez said she never imagined when she went to work for West Bronx in the 1990s that she’d be accused of committing a federal crime. Read more..
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