Sherman Roberts, who pleaded guilty to bribing council members, now says he’s an innocent man.
And this is how The City Hall Corruption Story ends. Not with a clang. But with probation and applause.
Sherman Roberts, the low-income housing developer who in 2024 pleaded guilty to bribing former Dallas City Council members Dwaine Caraway and the late Carolyn Davis, will not spend a second in prison. Instead, on Wednesday morning, in a downtown courtroom lined with jampacked pews, U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade sentenced the 72-year-old Roberts to four years of probation and a $10,000 fine to be paid over the next year.
Federal prosecutors were asking for five years in prison for the man who, despite his 2020 indictment and 2024 guilty plea — to the charge of Conspiracy to Commit Bribery Concerning Programs Receiving Federal Funds — remains the president and CEO of low-income housing development company City Wide Community Development Corp…