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The former mayor spent the campaign money on a church fee, a banquet room rental, flowers, and bar tab of relative's wedding.

Former Romulus Mayor LeRoy Burcroff, 59, was handed a significant sentence, three years probation and four months of home confinement, for his serious offenses of stealing and misusing over $15,000 in campaign funds.

Burcroff spent the campaign money on a church fee, a banquet room rental, flowers, and bar tab of relative's wedding.

Burcroff spent the campaign money on a church fee, a banquet room rental, flowers, and bar tab of relative's wedding.

A former Romulus mayor pleaded guilty to wire fraud after authorities say he used campaign funds to pay for a family member's wedding, pay yacht club dues, take a vacation, and more.

LeRoy Burcroff is the latest public official convicted of a federal crime during a more than decade-long assault on corruption in Metro Detroit.