Thank God. I do not want my tax dollars going to a corrupt felons like Sherry Freebery or Tom Gordon.
Council voted 11-1 against the proposal [giving Freeberry $3.7 million for her legal expenses], saying they agreed with a recommendation from a special consultant who determined that the county’s indemnification law is too narrowly drawn to require a reimbursement.
“When you look at the plain language of the provision, which is unlike Delaware corporate law, our provision is permissive,” said Councilman John Cartier, D-8th District.
“A lot of the charges constituted a pattern of a breach of the public trust.”
Freebery, the former Chief Administrative Officer of the County, and her boss, former County Executive Tom Gordon, were brought up on charges of “running the government as a criminal enterprise and misusing county resources for their personal and political gain.” In a plea deal prior to trial, Freebery pleaded guilty to one felony count of making a false statement to a bank for failing to include on a mortgage application that she had a $2.3 million loan from du Pont heiress and developer Lisa Dean Moseley.
I am not sure why Freebery needs the County to pay her bills. Surely she can get another “loan” from a du Pont heiress.