‘This is almost surreal’
Mayor, clerk endured 6 months of silence as investigation took its course
DIXON – Standing in the doorway of Mayor Jim Burke’s office, City Clerk Kathe Swanson showed him a bank statement for an account neither of them said they knew existed.
Five months and one arrest later, Burke sat down on the couch in his City Hall office and remembered that day – and the days and weeks of forced silence that followed.
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