Ex-charity boss gets prison time for theft, pays 100k in restitution to City; Result of IGO joint investigation | Chicago Sun-Times | 1/29/2010
by Stefano Esposito
Patti Buffington -- the onetime head of a West Side charity devoted to assisting prostitutes -- was sentenced to a year in prison Thursday. The sentence comes 3 ½ years after she was charged with looting $479,000 from the charity and spending some of the money on swanky vacations to the Bahamas.