Ex-Energy Attorney Sentenced
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
A former Energy Department attorney was sentenced today to two years in prison and fined $15,000 for taking a $5,000 bribe in return for internal agency documents involving a 1980 oil-pricing investigation of Oklahoma oil dealer Robert Sutton.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson also ordered Mark A. Sucher, 32, to serve 100 hours of community service during the two years of probation that follow his prison term.
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