$15,000 Fine Levied on Ex-Energy Aide in Oil Price Bribe Case
A former Energy Department attorney was sentenced Monday 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.
Sucher, who had been assigned to the Office of Special Counsel in the department’s Economic Regulatory Administration, was convicted by a federal court jury in February of three counts of conspiracy and bribery. He faced a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and a $15,000 fine.
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