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[Fmr. Shelby County, TN] Commissioner indicted on extortion
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| Last Edited | Servo Nov 13, 2007 01:40pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 07:40:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A federal grand jury has indicted a former Shelby County commissioner on corruption charges.
Bruce Thompson, 48, was charged with one count of extortion and three counts of mail fraud in connection with helping a Jackson, Tenn., company win a $46.7-million, three school construction contract with Memphis city schools in 2004.
Thompson is accused of selling his influence by accepting more than $200,000 from H&M Company while serving as a commissioner in 2004 and 2005.
Thompson, an East Memphis Republican, joins a long list of public officials from the Memphis area implicated in corruption allegations as part of the federal government's continued, intense scrunity of lawmakers. He is the second county commissioner to be charged. Former commissioner Michael Hooks pleaded guilty to bribery last year and is serving a 26-month sentence at Federal Prison Camp at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Ala. |
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