Disgraced Brooklyn Assemblymember Pamela Harris gets 6 months in prison for stealing $70,000
Judge cites her abusive mother and past crack addiction as reasons for light sentence
Disgraced former Assemblymember Pamela Harris initially faced up to 30 years in prison, but a Brooklyn federal court judge decided to give her just six months in prison instead.
After she serves six months in federal prison, Harris, a 58-year-old who represented the neighborhoods of Bay Ridge, Coney Island, Bath Beach, Brighton Beach, Dyker Heights and Seagate in the state Assembly, will also be subject to three years of supervised release, will serve 400 hours of community service and will pay back all of what she stole.
She pled guilty in June to stealing $45,600 from the nonprofit group she ran, the Coney Island Generation Gap, and $24,800 from FEMA following Hurricane Sandy, and also for inducing witnesses to lie to the FBI.