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New York politician convicted of corruption to be stripped of pension in first use of forfeiture law

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Ursula Stone pleaded guilty in May to a corruption charge for stealing from the Village of Addison .

The former clerk-treasurer of the small village in the southwestern part of the state will be sentenced to up to nine years in prison and ordered to pay $1.1 million in restitution.

Stone, 56 , ran the village's financial operations with no oversight and stole dozens of checks intended for the village.

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