Harding Plea Rejected

Tonya Harding isn’t finished serving meals to the elderly just yet, and the Special Olympics will get the remaining $25,000 it expected from the disgraced skater.

Harding went to court to try to alter the terms of the sentence she received for her role in the attack on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan.

As part of the plea bargain, Harding is to donate $50,000 to Special Olympics and perform 500 hours of community service. She asked Circuit Judge Donald Londer to allow her to pay the remaining $25,000 she owes to the Loaves and Fishes program instead of to Special Olympics.

She also wanted the judge to let her out of her remaining 100 hours of community service.

Probation officer Patricia Foley said Harding had been a model client, but Londer said he felt his original sentence was fair.