Ex-Wayne County deputy CIO sentenced to prison
David Edwards gets year in prison for taking $13,000 in bribes from contractor
No description foundDETROIT – Another former Wayne County government official has been sentenced to time in federal prison.
David Edwards used to head the county's information technology department. He was convicted of taking $13,000 in bribes from a contractor.
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On Friday, Edwards was sentenced to one year and one day in prison.
His former assistant, Zayd Allebban, recently was sentenced to 41 months in prison as part of a federal probe into alleged Wayne County corruption.
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That investigation is ongoing.
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