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Volume 57, Number 32 • August 18, 2011
Goochlanders talk about Grubbs plea By Jim Fields jfields@mechlocal.com
Photo by Ken Odor
District 4 supervisor Malvern R. “Rudy” Butler talks to the crowd at the GOP Mass Meeting.
Butler running again in District 4 By Ken Odor jodor@ggochlandgazette.com
Four years ago Rudy Butler was thinking about not running for another term as supervisor for District 4 and said so. “I’m not going to run again if we
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can’t make some progress,” he recalls saying. But members of the business community and others urged him to run again, he said in an interview last Friday during a break in a Virginia Association of Counties (VaCo) meeting. “They said that Ned Creasey would
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help me,” recalled Butler, who is running for another term this November in District 4. In the end Butler ran unopposed in 2007. This year he faces a challenge from Bob Minnick. see Butler > page 2
A group of citizens had different opinions Aug. 10 as to how long Judge Timothy K. Sanner should sentence Brenda Grubbs to serve for embezzling $185,000 from Goochland County, but while they differed on the number of years she should receive, there was one point they were unanimous on: If you do the crime, you have to serve the time. Grubbs pleaded guilty Aug. 9 to 20 felony counts. Sanner set sentencing for Dec.13. Special Prosecutor Jeffrey Haislip of Fluvana said he will ask for time in prison but would not give a figure. “I’ll be asking for incarceration,” said Haislip, who added that there was little chance of recovering any of the money. In her plea agreement letter Grubbs pledged to make restitution. In exchange for the plea, the state agreed to forego additional charges against her, including up to 23 additional counts of embezzlement and as many as 23 more counts of money laundering. “I don’t think she needs to serve any 400 years, maybe 20 years,” said Gerald Mitchell. “This is a white collar crime. It would be nice if she
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could pay back some of the money she stole. If she gets 400 years, that won’t happen. “One thing for sure, no one will ever trust her again,” Mitchell added.
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