Apr 08 2008
Wright Gets Six to Eight Years
Raleigh | Just last month, Thomas Wright was the eight-term representative of N.C. House District 18. On Monday, he was a convicted felon, sentenced to six to eight years in prison.
Wake County Superior Court Judge Henry Hight handed down Wright’s sentence a couple of hours after jurors found him guilty on three of the four felony fraud charges he faced.
The jury convicted him of obtaining property by false pretenses by defrauding a bank to lend him $150,000.
And so the sorry saga ends. It would seem that justice has prevailed. Wright’s lawyer is still making a fool out of himself, but I wouldn’t expect anything less.
