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Nevada Public-access TV director gets jail time

By  May 27, 2013  

Public-access TV director gets jail time 

 http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20040916/NEWS/109160015

Every weekend for the next 90 weeks Craig Swope will serve a 180-day jail sentence for embezzling nearly $500,000 from Carson Access Television where he was director, a judge determined Wednesday."I want you to remember every week what you did to those folks," said Judge Norman Robison in suspending a five-year prison sentence in lieu of five years' probation. "You're now a felon and you'll live with that."Swope, 55, pleaded guilty in June to one count of embezzlement for gambling $500,000 of the station's money between January 1999 and June 2003. Prior to confessing his gambling addiction to the CAT …