BRIDGEPORT—In the case of ousted and disgraced former Bridgeport mayor Max Schauf, there’s been one burning question:
How much money did he thieve from the city while he was mayor?
As it turns out, the feds have filed some paperwork that may show just that.
Here’s the attendant story to the big lead Bridgeport meeting article, which tells all about what the feds are alleging Max owes, and explains why his sentencing has been delayed another month and a half (from August 8 to September 26); the next “Read the Lead” offering, “Former mayor has forfeiture documents filed against him in federal court case — Sentencing delayed til late September while feds make a case“:
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U.S. DISTRICT COURT, BENTON—Nearly every month the case file of former Bridgeport mayor Max Schauf is scrutinized by Disclosure, it reveals another interesting twist in the circumstances.
The month of July was no different.
In the case file as of July, documents show, first of all, that sentencing in Schauf’s money laundering scheme (during which he was charged with, and convicted of, stealing money from the city in order to enrich himself unjustly) has been changed from August 8 to September 26, 2013.
Schauf had originally been indicted by a federal grand jury in November of 2012, and had entered a plea of “not guilty” to all four counts against him, which showed that he was using city funds to pay personal credit cards, and advising those in his circle on how to lie to FBI agents who had been crawling over the area for about a year prior to the indictment in an effort to learn just what Schauf was doing with city funds and with his “front” business, the Red Hill Veterans Club.
He changed his plea to guilty on May 8, and sentencing was set for three months from that date, in Benton.
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