Judge doesn’t buy ex-DA employee’s ‘shopaholic’ argument at sentencing
(New York Post Local News)

A top official-turned-embezzler in the Staten Island DA’s Office tried to dodge jail time Friday by blaming his crime on being a shopaholic — but the judge wasn’t buying it. The DA’s former director of procurement, William Nelson, was slapped with 24 months behind bars Friday, just six months shy of the maximum sentence possible....