When it comes to making a decision between losing a person’s freedom or losing their pension, most would probably give up the money. But under a relatively new law, government workers convicted of stealing are losing both.
That reality was brought home last week in the case of former Redding road supervisor Bruce Sanford, who is serving a three-month jail sentence for first-degree larceny. Last year, Sanford admitted he sold two of the town’s aging street sweepers and a truck and pocketed the money.
