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Sonya Arrington arrives at the federal courthouse in Pittsburgh for her sentencing Monday. (Image: Your Erie)
On Monday, a federal judge in Pittsburgh said he was concerned that Sonya Arrington had eroded public trust in government and charitable organizations. Senior United States District Judge David S. Cercone said he had to impose a sentence that promoted “respect for the law.”
Between 2012 and 2018, Arrington embezzled $70,000 from Mothers Against Teen Violence, which she largely blew at the tables of the Presque Isle Downs & Casino in the city.
She also fraudulently claimed nearly $30,000 in Social Security disability payments while in office.
Refused to Resign
The letters are included in a sentencing memorandum that Arrington s lawyer filed in the case, in which Arrington, 53, pleaded guilty to defrauding her nonprofit, Mothers Against Teen Violence, of $70,000 and using the money to gamble at Presque Isle Downs & Casino and to pay for personal expenses.
The lawyer, Leonard Ambrose, refers to the letters from Anderson and Witherspoon as well as the letters of 18 other friends and relatives of Arrington as he asks Senior U.S. District Judge David S. Cercone to spare Arrington a prison term.
Ambrose is asking that Cercone give Arrington probation or house arrest with electronic monitoring and impose no fine, citing what he said is Arrington s negative financial net worth. He said in the sentencing memo that Arrington s work as an anti-violence advocate work she started after the 2010 shooting death of her 19-year-old son, Steve Arrington II weighs heavily in Arrington s favor in seeking a lenient sentence.