A U.S. District Court criminal jury in Martinsburg has acquitted Jerry Mezzatesta, the ex-House Education chairman, and former Hampshire County Schools Superintendent David Friend.
The Associated Press has a story as does The Journal of Martinsburg, which covered the entire trial.
As AP reports, "Mezzatesta and Friend were each charged with defrauding the Hampshire County Board of Education and conspiring to misapply public funds between January 2004 and June 2005."
The AP article also notes that Mezzatesta, D-Hampshire, was previously "reprimanded and fined by the state Ethics Commission for violating a 1999 agreement that he would not use his legislative position to benefit the county." He also "pleaded no contest in 2004 to a Kanawha County misdemeanor charge of altering and destroying legislative computer records" amid an ethics investigation.
30 March 2007
Mezz & Friend: Not Guilty
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