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Richards
SCRANTON — A federal judge has given former Luzerne County human resources director Douglas Richards more time before reporting to prison to serve his sentence on corruption charges, pushing the date from March 14 to April 18.
Richards, of Wilkes-Barre, was sentenced Dec. 13 to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to accepting a bribe for influencing the awarding of a contract. He was originally scheduled to report to prison Feb. 2, but moved for and received a delay once already, to March 14.
In that motion for delay and the new one that led to this delay, Richard’s attorney, William Ruzzo, argued his client has an appeal pending and that he is cooperating with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the ongoing corruption investigation.
Both motions for a delay were unopposed by the U.S. attorney.