A week after South Lake Tahoe’s mayor resigned amid an embezzlement scandal, her successor was chosen — a man who is fighting charges related to a run-in at a bar.

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An overflow crowd attended the Tuesday city council meeting at which Cody Bass was promoted to the top role, TV station KOVR reported.

Tamara Wallace formally left the job on Oct. 13. The previous week she announced in a public letter that she had embezzled from a church, and that her “guilt, shame and grief” drove her to attempt suicide on Sept. 11. She spent the subsequent weeks in mental health treatment, she said.

In her resignation announcement, Wallace urged her council colleague Bass to step down as well. He was charged in a Sept. 25 incident at a pub in Stateline, Nev., in which he allegedly threaten

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