Former Reading mayor Vaughn Spencer released from federal custody after serving sentence for bribery conviction

READING, Pa. – Former Reading mayor Vaughn Spencer, imprisoned since 2019 after being convicted on federal bribery charges, is once again a free man.

Spencer was released from federal custody on Friday after serving almost six years of an eight-year sentence for his role in a pay-to-play case that found him guilty of trading city contracts for campaign donations. This is according to the Philadelphia Residential Reentry Management Office.

The former Reading mayor was previously held at a minimum-security facility in Kentucky before being transferred to a reentry center in Philadelphia prior to his release…

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