Town clerk pays back money, sentenced to home detentionBy Schuyler Kropf (Contact)
Thursday, May 8, 2008
A former Mount Pleasant clerk who stole about $145,000 from the town was sentenced to one year of home detention Thursday after she made full restitution. Isabelle Perdue, 46, asked for forgiveness for her crimes as she apologized to the town, its police and citizens. “All I ask is a second chance to make amends,” she said through tears inside the Charleston County Judicial Center. Mount Pleasant police had asked for some period of incarceration. But Circuit Judge Roger Young said putting Perdue in an already crowded prison system for a non-violent offense would not add to her rehabilitation, considering she’s lost her husband to divorce, her home and her standing in the community. Perdue was arrested in April 2006, about two months after she had resigned her position with the town. Her scheme was so sophisticated that auditors did not discover what she was doing for some time, officials said. She'd been with the town for 14 years. |
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Posted by Thomas1776 on May 8, 2008 at 10:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Anyone in the private sector would have been jailed.
Posted by Thomas1776 on May 8, 2008 at 10:25 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Circuit Judge Roger Young said putting Perdue in an already crowded prison system for a non-violent offense would not add to her rehabilitation??????