A federal judge sentenced former Traffic Court Judge Willie Singletary to 20 months for lying to the FBI.
A former traffic court judge in Philadelphia convicted of lying to the FBI in a sweeping ticket-fixing case is facing 20 months in prison.
Willie Singletary was sentenced Thursday in federal court.
Three of Singletary's co-defendants, all judges, were convicted with him last summer.
The indictment had portrayed the city's traffic court as a patronage pit where judges routinely fixed tickets for friends and allies, but Singletary and his three co-defendants were acquitted of the lead conspiracy and fraud charges.
Several other judges pleaded guilty before trial.
Philadelphia traffic cases are now handled by the city's municipal court.
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