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JPZenger

(6,819 posts)
Mon May 21, 2012, 11:20 AM May 2012

A bad bad year for PA. budget czar's wife: 2 $1,000 thefts, a police chase & a later drunken crash

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/harrisburg_politics/MASTER-Blog-Worden-Harrisburg.html

"The wife of the Pennsylvania budget secretary was sentenced to five years probation in connection with two 2010 retail theft incidents, including stealing almost $1,000 worth of groceries from Wegman's.

A Cumberland County court judge sentenced Georgina Zogby to 24 months probation and 24 hours of community service for stealing merchandise from T.J. Maxx in January 2010. She also received 36 months probation and 36 hours community service for stealing $955 in groceries from Wegmans in 2010... Zogby, 48, who is the wife of Charles Zogby, a member of Gov. Corbett's cabinet, faced up to five years each on the two retail theft counts. She has two outstanding DUI cases pending.

In the first DUI indicident last July, Zogby led police on a middle-of-the-night chase forcing them to put down nail strips to stop her. The case sparked controversy after it was learned that a state police officer left Corbett's security detail to pick up Zogby after her arrest.

In the second case, Zogby was found to have a blood-alcohol content of .117 and a suspended driver's license after she crashed and flipped her BMW on Sept. 28 near her home outside of Harrisburg, according to news reports. Pennsylvania's legal BAC limit is .08."

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A bad bad year for PA. budget czar's wife: 2 $1,000 thefts, a police chase & a later drunken crash (Original Post) JPZenger May 2012 OP
A "lesser' person would have done at least 6 months in jail before parole independentpiney May 2012 #1
Corbett's security detail JPZenger May 2012 #2
How Pat Riot May 2012 #3
Sounds like he should lock her in the attic Curmudgeoness May 2012 #4
She also gave the CBS21 cameras the finger on her way into court. badhair77 May 2012 #5

independentpiney

(1,510 posts)
1. A "lesser' person would have done at least 6 months in jail before parole
Mon May 21, 2012, 01:30 PM
May 2012

What a travesty. No wonder I have so little respect left for the police and courts.

JPZenger

(6,819 posts)
2. Corbett's security detail
Mon May 21, 2012, 02:06 PM
May 2012

... and they wouldn't have had an on-duty state cop in a state car drive them back and forth across 3 counties after they were arrested.

Pat Riot

(446 posts)
3. How
Mon May 21, 2012, 05:15 PM
May 2012

did it happen in the first place? How do you steal a thousand bucks worth of groceries or merchandise? Credit card fraud?

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
4. Sounds like he should lock her in the attic
Mon May 21, 2012, 08:00 PM
May 2012

before she really embarrassed him.

I am outraged that she has gotten away with so much, and I want it stopped. I want her in jail, just like the rest of us would be for much less.

I don't know how I missed this in the news. Thanks for posting.

badhair77

(4,191 posts)
5. She also gave the CBS21 cameras the finger on her way into court.
Mon May 21, 2012, 09:55 PM
May 2012

The video seems to have disappeared from their website but there's a still photo here. That was in Dec. Very classy.

http://tinyurl.com/78ts662

By May, according to the Pat News, she's been to rehab and is now involved with AA. Maybe she can get her act together.

http://tinyurl.com/88rtxgu

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