Former KGO Talker Bernie Ward Sentenced to 7 Years
Thursday August 28, 2008
Former KGO-AM/San Francisco radio personality, Bernie Ward, was sentenced to 7 years and 3 months in prison today by Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker. (Right: Bernie Ward on-the-air at KGO/San Francisco, Photo Credit: © KGO Radio)
Howard Mintz from Mercury News summed up Ward's fate as a "...tumble from one of the Bay Area's most popular liberal voices on the local airwaves to a pariah caught up in the world of online child pornography."
Ward has to turn himself over to U.S. Marshals by noon this Friday. His sentence is the result of a guilty plea earlier this year to one count of distributing child pornography.
While employed at KGO-AM, Bernie Ward did a 3-hour nightly program. He was fired from KGO in January, 2008.
Background: Child Porn Charges: Former San Francisco Talk Show Host Bernie Ward Pleads Guilty
More: Profile of Bernie Ward
Comments
Glad to see that he isn’t getting much attention. Hm-m-m, a former priest, too. If he is guilty, he should disappear into the prison system and we should forget about him until he’s out. THEN will be the time to remember who he is and what he did. And to watch him closely.