A former major league pitcher who later served two terms as the mayor of a Cleveland suburb, has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for using stolen credit card info to buy gas.
In... A former major league pitcher who later served two terms as the mayor of a Cleveland suburb, has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for using stolen credit card info to buy gas. In all, federal prosecutors in Ohio say Smith had used over 100 stolen credit and debit cards to buy $10,621 in fuel. As part of his guilty plea, Smith agreed to pay the money back.Smith, who went by Chuck Smith during his baseball days, played two years as a starting pitcher for the Florida Marlins in 2000 and 2001. He had been drafted by the Houston Astros in 1991 and spent nine years in the minors before being called up to the big leagues at the age of 30.
After bouncing around a few more years in the minors and overseas as a player and a coach, Smith switched to politics, and was elected the mayor of Woodmere, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb of around 900 people in 2008. He amassed a small real estate portfolio in northern Ohio and filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009 amid the financial crisis. He served two terms as mayor and left office in 2017.
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