
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 9, 1993                   TAG: 9306090139
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NORFOLK                                LENGTH: Short

CHESAPEAKE EX-MAYOR GETS TERM

David Wynne, a former Chesapeake mayor who pleaded guilty a year ago to bank fraud, was sentenced Tuesday to six months in prison and ordered to repay $3,000.

"I wish I could find some basis for saying the court did not have to imprison the defendant," U.S. District Judge Richard Kellam said in sentencing Wynne, 46, for a second time in the case.

Last August, Kellam sentenced Wynne to six months of home detention for failing to list substantial debts on loan applications to two banks.

At that sentencing, the judge compared Wynne to Revolutionary War hero "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, who had a distinguished career as a congressman and Virginia governor but spent several months near the end of his life in debtor's prison.

But the first sentence was overturned by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond. The appellate court ruled in March that the proper sentencing range under federal guidelines for Wynne's case was 12 to 18 months.

Kellam sentenced Wynne on Tuesday to 12 months, but Wynne was given credit for the six months of home detention he already has served.

Paul R. Thomson Jr., Wynne's attorney, said his client was the victim of a $125,000 embezzlement that ruined his business. Despite the loss, he said, Wynne refused to seek bankruptcy and borrowed money to try to pay off his debts.

by CNB