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Letitia Slack has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for stealing money from a non- profit agency for use in gambling casinos.
Slack worked for the East St. Louis- based Community Development Block Grant Operations Corp., an agency which finds ways to administer federal housing grants to the needy. During her employment, Slack stole $158,279 from the organization, which she used to feed an addiction to gambling casinos.
Slack was sentenced to a year and a half in prison and a three- year probationary period. During the probationary period, she will be prohibited from entering any gambling casinos or other wagering establishment in which gambling is the primary activity. She will also have to attend a treatment program for gambling casinos addictions, for which she will defray the cost herself.
U.S. District Court Judge William Stiehl decided not to sentence Slack to house arrest and community service, as requested by her attorney, because she had �violated a position of public trust in order to feed her gambling casinos addiction.
Her attorney, Scott Rosenblum, had asked for leniency because of Slack’s lack of a criminal record, and her prior contributions to the community.
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