Former Buncombe County Manager Wanda Skillington Greene, sentenced in August to seven years incarceration for corruption charges, has reported to a federal penitentiary.

Greene, 68, is in FMC Carswell, an all-female "administrative security federal medical center with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp" in Fort Worth, Texas, according to the Bureau of Prisons website. The facility has 1,605 inmates, including 1,267 at the FMC and 338 inmates at the camp.

Greene's release date is listed as Sept. 17, 2025.

She has battled breast cancer, undergoing a double mastectomy in 2016. Greene had been undergoing radiation treatments last summer for a recurrence of lymphoproliferative disorder.

Greene, three other former county officials and a contractor were all sentenced Aug. 28 in Asheville to federal prison sentences, with Greene receiving the most time. U.S. District Judge Robert Conrad referred to Greene as the "architect" of a culture of corruption in Buncombe County, before sentencing her to 84 months. She also was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine.

In handing down his sentence, Conrad said Greene, 68, engaged in "out-of-control criminal activity" despite her nearly $250,000 annual salary and generous retirement benefits as a county employee.

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Conrad also sentenced four others connected to county corruption to prison time.

Longtime Georgia-based contractor Joe Wiseman was sentenced to 37 months; former manager Mandy Stone got 33 months; ex-assistant manager Jon Creighton got 18 months; and Michael Greene, Wanda Greene's son and the county's former business intelligence manager, received six months.

None of the others have reported to prison yet, according to the BOP site.

Greene, who headed Buncombe for nearly two decades and earned a salary of $247,000 before retiring in 2017, pleaded guilty to two counts of federal program fraud, one count of making and subscribing a federal tax return and one count of receipt of kickbacks and bribes. She participated in an elaborate kickback scheme in which a contractor billed the county for trips to California and Florida, and she bilked the county out of millions of dollars through other schemes, including a life insurance purchase program.

About $2.8 million of the misappropriated funds had been recouped as of January 2019.

Federal prosecutors had asked to delay the beginning of Greene's prison sentence, saying in a court filing that Greene is expected to be called as a witness in the federal case against former Buncombe County Commissioner Ellen Frost.

Greene's attorneys, Noell Tin of Charlotte and Thomas Amburgey of Asheville, had joined the prosecution's request.

Judge Conrad denied the federal government's motion, though, saying the manager's criminal conduct dates back to 2007 and there had been previous continuances in the case.