Former Yankee player Raúl Mondesi sentenced to six years in prison, to be served minus time on house arrest

Former MLB player Raúl Mondesi’s legal troubles appear to be a thing of the past after a Dominican court ruled that his six-year, nine-month prison sentence stemming from corruption charges was satisfied by house arrest, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Mondesi was implicated in corruption cases while serving as mayor of San Cristobal in the Dominican Republic, for which he was convicted in 2017.

Mondesi was placed under house arrest pending the appeal, which ended only on Friday.

As part of his 2017 conviction, Mondesi was fined $1.3 million for defrauding more than $6 million and banned from holding public office for 10 years.

Friday’s decision came after Mondesi reached an agreement with the prosecutor’s office.

In 2020, prosecutors tried to have him imprisoned for the rest of his sentence, accusing him of violating the terms of his house arrest, but the request was unsuccessful and the San Cristóbal Court of Appeal ordered a new trial in 2023.

Mondesi played baseball in the major leagues for 13 years and after retiring from playing, he began a political career.

He spent parts of two seasons in the Bronx with the Yankees, where he appeared in 169 games during the 2002-03 season.

During his MLB career, he had a .273 batting average, hit 271 home runs and had 860 RBIs.

Mondesi won the 1994 NL Rookie of the Year Award during his first season with the Dodgers, and was named to the 1995 MLB All-Star Game.

During his career, Mondesi played for the Dodgers, Blue Jays, Yankees, Diamondbacks, Pirates, Angels and Braves.

After retiring, he returned to San Cristobal, where he was from, and eventually entered politics, where he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, the equivalent of the U.S. House of Representatives.

He served as mayor of San Cristobal from 2010 to 2016 and was eventually charged with “conspiracy of officials, forgery of documents, use of false documents, evasion, embezzlement and crimes of meddling in matters inconsistent with the quality of an official and association with criminals.”