Ex-Dep. Mayor of Capital Gets Jail Term
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former Deputy Mayor Alphonse Hill to six months to 2 1/2 years in prison for defrauding the District of Columbia by steering contracts to a friend in exchange for kickbacks.
District Judge William Bryant fined Hill $5,000 and rejected the former city official’s tearful plea that he be allowed to serve his sentence at a halfway house.
Hill, who pleaded guilty last month to fraud and tax evasion, could have received five years and $10,000 in fines on each charge. Bryant sentenced him to five to 15 months in prison on the tax evasion charge, but ordered that the two sentences run concurrently.
Bryant said he would recommend that Hill be sent to the federal prison in Allenwood, Pa.
Hill, 48, is the second deputy mayor and 11th city official to be convicted of crimes during the administration of Mayor Marion Barry Jr. An investigation into alleged corruption in city contracting, disclosed the day Hill pleaded guilty, is continuing.
As controller from 1979 to 1983 and deputy mayor until his resignation in March, 1986, Hill was largely credited with designing the district’s accounting procedures.
Hill admitted accepting $3,000 from James Hill, a friend and former college roommate.
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