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Former Atlantic City mayor sentenced to 30 days in prison for defrauding basketball charity

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -  The former mayor of Atlantic City was sentenced to 30 days in prison and 11 months of house arrest for defrauding contributors to a youth basketball team out of more than $86,000, authorities announced Thursday.Frank Gilliam, a Democrat, is the latest in a line of corrupt Atlantic City officials so long that it spawned a hit HBO TV series.He could have been sentenced to nearly two years in federal prison following his October 2019 guilty plea to wire fraud."I stand before this court as a fractured human being, one seeking to do better," a sobbing Gilliam told the judge over a video link. "It’s something I wish never happened.

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