MIAMI – Previous Plantation Mayor Lynn Stoner turned herself in at the Broward County Most important Jail Tuesday following she was criminally charged with misconduct that took spot though she served as an elected formal.
Prosecutors mentioned Stoner faces a demand of formal misconduct, a third-degree felony, 1 count of falsification of information, a very first-degree misdemeanor, and two counts of influencing a setting up formal, a to start with-degree misdemeanor.
Stoner was introduced on her possess recognizance whilst the case goes by means of the prison justice process, officers declared.
This is what prosecutors mentioned led to Stoner’s arrest:
“Involving April and September of 2020, Stoner took a selection of unlawful actions to advantage a developer and his providers and jobs in the town, the investigation discovered. These actions provided Stoner issuing a letter from the business office of the Plantation mayor that falsely mentioned that Strata Team, LLC had effectively cleared up code violations and fines on a person of its assignments. This was wrong and the target was to assistance the developer acquire a financial loan, according to court documents. This action concerned formal misconduct and falsification of documents by Stoner.”
“In April 2020, Stoner “tried to coerce, trick, persuade, or otherwise affect” a Plantation setting up formal to “do her a favor” and create an official letter stating that Strata Group’s building code violations and fines experienced been settled and/or to eradicate those people violations. When the creating formal refused, Stoner issued the letter herself, ensuing in the formal misconduct cost.”
“Between July and September of that 12 months, Stoner “threatened, coerced, tricked, persuaded, or otherwise affected” the very same city building official to attempt to get him to allow for the developer to do construction perform devoid of a proper allow on a task acknowledged as Pixl.”
Stoner could be dealing with up to 8 years in jail.
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