Confronted with going to prison, a former top executive of the charity arm for Jackson Health System implored a federal judge on Wednesday to give her no time behind bars after pleading guilty to stealing millions of dollars intended for hospital patients.
Charmaine Gatlin, the former chief operating officer of the Jackson Health Foundation, cited a litany of personal traumas — from being molested as a young woman to her son’s autism to her husband’s prostate cancer — while apologizing to U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom.
“Judge Bloom, what I did was wrong and out of unhealed trauma, desperation, stupidity, and lack of faith in God,” Gatlin wrote in her five-page letter…