The state Ethics Commission ordered Harrisburg Mayor Wanda Williams to pay a $912.70 fine for instructing city employees to deliver a city-owned dumpster to her home in 2022 for her personal use.

Williams agreed to pay the fine instead of going through a hearing, which the commission said would have found her in violation of state ethics laws.

Mayor Williams did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The commission found Williams used her personal cellphone in May 2022 to text then Public Works Director Nate Spriggs asking him to “bring back” a city dumpster to her home. “My residents have also utilized the dumpster!” she added.

Williams had previously insisted the city dumpster was available to the whole neighborhood.

“He didn’t do it just for me,” Williams said at the ti

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