(PA) Years after conviction, former County Councilman McCullough taken into custody [View all]
Former Allegheny County Councilman Charles P. McCullough was taken into custody Tuesday morning to begin serving his sentence on theft charges following a sprawling court case dating back over a decade. He appeared in Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge David R. Cashman’s courtroom and was immediately taken into custody ...
McCullough, 66, was ordered last month by to comply with his 2½- to 5-year prison sentence after the state Supreme Court declined to hear his final appeal. Judge Cashman dropped the minimum sentence to 22½ months.
The charges stemmed from when McCullough was arrested in 2009 for writing more than $40,000 in checks for political contributions with money taken from an elderly widow he represented. The woman, Shirley H. Jordan, was a 90-year-old widow of a successful real estate businessman. McCullough was put in charge of her trust in 2006 ... When the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette interviewed Ms. Jordan about the checks, she said McCullough had taken too much control in her affairs and called him a cheap politician, according to court records.
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2021/04/06/charles-mccullough-allegheny-county-councilman-arrested-taken-custody-theft/stories/202104060106
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