Ex-Official’s Wife Given Probation in Federal Theft Case
Carol Brown Hubbard, the wife of former Kentucky Rep. Carroll Hubbard Jr., said Thursday before she was sentenced to fives years of probation for aiding the theft of government property that she “didn’t mean to do anything wrong.”
She had been accused of using her husband’s congressional staffers on her failed campaign for the House in 1992.
U.S. District Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer also sentenced Mrs. Hubbard to perform 100 hours of community service and pay $27,000 in restitution. She pleaded guilty in April to one misdemeanor count of aiding and abetting theft of government property.
Her husband pleaded guilty to three felony counts, but his sentencing was delayed until July 6 following lengthy discussions Thursday in the judge’s chambers.
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