Ex-St. Louis County executive gets nearly 4 years in prison

By iNFOTEL
August 09 2019 01:32 PM

CP1646083289 — FILE - In this Monday, April 29, 2019, file photo, St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger, center, and his lawyer Scott Rosenblum, leave federal court in St. Louis, after entering a not-guilty plea on corruption charges following his indictment. Stenger, once among the most powerful elected officials in Missouri, was sentenced Friday to nearly four years in prison for orchestrating a pay-for-play scheme. Stenger, 47, pleaded guilty in May to federal corruption charges for providing political favors, including a county contract, in exchange for campaign donations. He was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison, and fined 50,000. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)

ST. LOUIS – Steve Stenger, once among the most powerful elected officials in Missouri, has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for orchestrating a pay-for-play scheme.

Stenger, the former Democratic St. Louis County executive, was sentenced Friday to three years and 10 months. He pleaded guilty in May to federal corruption charges for providing political favours in exchange for campaign donations. He also was fined $250,000.

The indictment was announced April 29 and Stenger resigned that same day. Stenger pleaded guilty four days later to three counts related to bribery and fraud.

Three others also pleaded guilty as part of the scheme — Stenger’s chief of staff, a businessman involved in the bribery scheme, and the former head of the county’s economic development agency.

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This version of the story corrects the 3rd paragraph to remove the inaccurate theft of services charge.

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