Wanda Greene, other corrupt officials to be sentenced next month

ASHEVILLE - Corrupt Buncombe County managers who participated in a yearslong kickback scheme with a longtime contractor soon will learn their potential prison sentences.

Wanda Greene, Mandy Stone and Jon Creighton will appear Aug. 28 in a federal courtroom in Asheville before Charlotte-based U.S. District Judge Robert Conrad. The trio, once county government's highest-appointed officials, have pleaded guilty to charges connected to receiving bribes from Georgia-based contractor Joe Wiseman.

Wiseman and Michael Greene, Wanda Greene's adult son and a former county employee, also are scheduled for sentencing Aug. 28.

The court dates come more than a year since the first official pleaded guilty to charges, and nearly two years after the U.S. Attorney's Office confirmed it was investigating Wanda Greene and others.

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(Ashewille Citizen-Times)