More Virgin Islands corruption: Another appointee of Democrat governor reaps whirlwind

Albert Bryan, the Democrat governor of the Virgin Islands, has apparently surrounded himself in recent years with fraudsters and grafters.

Bryan’s former commissioner of the territory’s parks and recreation department, Calvert White, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison following his conviction for one count of honest services wire fraud and one count of bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds.

‘This is unacceptable.’

The sentencing — relatively light given that the fraud offense carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and the bribery offense carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison — took place just weeks after the Democrat governor’s former police commissioner and former budget director were found guilty of extensive corruption.

White, who resigned last January, solicited and accepted a bribe