Former Dallas mayor pro tem sentenced in corruption case

By ABC13
DALLAS, TX U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn on Friday sentenced Hill's wife, Sheila Farrington Hill, to nine years; and D'Angelo Lee, Don Hill's appointee to the Dallas Plan Commission, received a 14-year prison term.

The three were convicted last year.

The Dallas Morning News reported that Don Hill and Lee faced a maximum of 95 years in prison for coordinating a scheme to shake down developers for hundreds of thousands of dollars in return for votes on their low-income housing projects in southern Dallas.

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