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TexasTowelie

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Fri Feb 3, 2017, 08:25 PM Feb 2017

McCrory gets 8.5 years in bribery case

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A businessman and former lawmaker will spend 8½ years in prison for crimes related to bribing Mississippi's former corrections commissioner.

U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate handed down the sentence against Cecil McCrory Friday.

McCrory, a Brandon resident pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy in February 2015, in relation to $40,000 in cash that he took from Epps, disguised as proceeds from a tractor sale, and wired back to the prison chief.

A onetime member of the state House, McCrory has said he paid off Epps' mortgage after the commissioner approved McCrory's plans to sell his prison commissary business.

Read more: http://www.meridianstar.com/region/mccrory-gets-years-in-bribery-case/article_2134ea1d-e0c0-582a-bc48-4f026a21beec.html

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McCrory gets 8.5 years in bribery case (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2017 OP
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