The Nation - News from July 21, 1985
The mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind., who resigned from office in a deal with prosecutors after admitting election law violations, was returned to power by a special Democratic Party caucus. Winfield Moses Jr., 42, captured 86 of 99 votes in a special election by Fort Wayne Democratic precinct committeemen. Moses resigned July 8 as part of a plea-bargaining agreement in which he also pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor election law violations in return for a special prosecutor’s dismissal of four felony counts. A judge fined him $3,000 and suspended a six-month jail term. He will finish out the two years left of his second term.
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