The political leadership of South Lake Tahoe has been shaken up this week by a pair of scandals: The resort city’s mayor admitted she embezzled from her church, and the mayor pro tem was arrested after a run-in at a Stateline pub.

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Mayor Tamara Wallace released a letter to local newspapers on Sunday, Oct. 5, in which she said her “guilt, shame and grief” over the embezzlement drove her to attempt suicide on Sept. 11, and she had spent the subsequent weeks in mental health treatment.

She said she had “in effect, turned herself in” for the extended theft from Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church, where she worked as an administrator. She didn’t say how much she had taken but said she planned to repay it. As of Monday, the El Dorado County district attorney had not anno

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