The embezzlement case would be Diop's second run-in with the prosecutors' probe into widespread corruption in DC37. He was previously convicted of fraud for rigging a vote to ratify a controversial city contract. Prosecutors and Diop's attorney Ramon Pagan said it was unlikely that he would be sentenced as scheduled in mid-Dec.
Diop's three codefendants in the case involving the theft of money pled guilty last month. One agreed to a sentence of probation; two accepted pleas calling for prison terms of 1.5 to 4.5 years in prison and 2 to 6 years in prison. [Newsday (N.Y.) 11/23/00]
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