TAYLOR (WWJ) — Former Taylor Mayor Rick Sollars will spend several years behind bars after being convicted on bribery and wire fraud charges.
U.S. Attorney Dawn Ison announced Tuesday Sollars has been sentenced to 71 months — a month shy of six years — in prison for conspiring to accept bribes and engaging in wire fraud while he was mayor.
From 2016 to 2018 Sollars “exercised his authority and influence as mayor” to award the vast majority of the city’s tax-foreclosed properties that the city had or would acquire under its Right of First Refusal (ROFR) program to the company Realty Transition…