Former Indiana Mayor Leaves US Prison After Bribe Conviction

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A former japanese Indiana mayor has been launched from a federal jail with greater than six months remaining on his one-year time period after pleading responsible to taking a bribe.

Dennis Tyler, Muncie’s mayor from 2012 via 2019, was launched Thursday from the Federal Correctional Establishment in Morgantown, West Virginia. He started serving a one-year sentence there final December.

Tyler was transferred to group confinement overseen by the Bureau of Prisons’ St. Louis Residential Reentry Administration Workplace, the bureau stated.

Neighborhood confinement means the inmate is in both house confinement or a residential reentry heart, also referred to as a midway home.

Tyler’s projected date of launch from federal custody is Oct. 14.

Tyler reached an settlement with federal prosecutors in Might 2021 to plead responsible to 1 rely of theft of presidency funds.

Prosecutors alleged Tyler in December 2015 had accepted a $5,000 fee delivered by a Muncie Sanitary District official from a contractor who had been awarded greater than $250,000 in improper metropolis contracts for excavation and demolition work.

Tyler is one among 9 individuals together with authorities staff and contractors to face prison prices in consequence a years-long federal investigation of corruption in his administration and the sanitary district.

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