JOHN W. FORBES II

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Forbes, Virginia’s former secretary of finance, was sentenced to the maximum term of 10 years in prison for stealing $4 million from a state commission set up to bolster the economy of the state’s tobacco-growing region. Forbes, 54, secured a $5 million grant for a literacy foundation that he created. He acknowledged using about $4 million of the money for his own expenses.

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