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Federal Charges Dropped Against Former Mount Vernon Police Commissioner Federal Charges Dropped Against Former Mount Vernon Police Commissioner
Federal Charges Dropped Against Former Mount Vernon Police Commissioner Amid the chaos in Mount Vernon City Hall, as politicians joust over who's in charge, former Police Commissioner Robert Kelly saw a federal judge dismiss charges brought against him by former Mayor Richard Thomas. In April 2018, a lawsuit was filed in federal court against Kelly and 22 others in a “broad conspiracy to defraud the city, during a time that encompassed a period of years when Kelly was not even employed by the city,” the former commissioner announced on Wednesday, July 31 after the charges against him were dismissed. Kelly stated that attorneys for Thomas asked to have the lawsu…