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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Former state Rep. Sue Schmitz of Madison County is free after completing a 30-month prison sentence. Schmitz was released Friday. Schmitz was convicted of federal mail fraud and theft charges in 2009. Prosecutors accused her of using her political connections as a legislator to get a government job that involved doing little or no work.
Schmitz testified during her trial that she did real work for the Community Intensive Training for Youth program, but she said she got little direction or cooperation from her supervisors. She was removed from office because of her conviction. Schmitz spent most of her sentence in a minimum security prison in Lexington, Ky. She had been at a halfway house in Birmingham since December.
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