{"id":2739,"date":"2025-10-15T23:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2739\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T23:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:18:08","slug":"former-scranton-mayor-bill-courtright-to-become-free-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2739\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Scranton Mayor Bill Courtright to become free man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 A former Scranton mayor is expected to become a free man on Wednesday after serving time for corruption. Bill Courtright\u2019s supervision by federal authorities ends on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Democrat pleaded guilty in 2019 to a shakedown scheme where authorities say he took money from companies that did business with the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/driver-seriously-injured-fiery-crash-172017143.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Driver seriously injured after fiery crash;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Driver seriously injured after fiery crash <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He did time in federal prison and then was released to the custody of a group that transitions inmates from prison to civilian life.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Courtright resigned in the middle of his second term due to the corruption scandal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 A former Scranton mayor is expected to become a free man on Wednesday after serving time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2406,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-federal-authorities","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}