Read the indictment here.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A former member of West Virginia's House of Delegates has been indicted by a federal grand jury on racketeering, gambling, obstruction and bribery charges for allegedly running illegal gambling rings in West Virginia and Kentucky.
Joe C. Ferrell is charged with bribing elected officials, including a former mayor of Logan and former Logan County sheriff, so that they would turn a blind eye to his illegal gambling enterprise, according to the 48-count indictment.
Ferrell, 62, of Chapmanville, is also accused of buying votes in Logan County during various campaigns and with bribing investigators with the West Virginia Lottery.
Joe C. is one of those archtypical Southern West Virginia politicians you may have heard about. He’s friends with everyone and half the people in Logan County have their jobs due to his influence.
He may well know enough to bring down some bigwigs. He’s one of the people you gotta go through to get votes in Logan.
This is really a big deal hereabouts..no telling who he will bring down to get out from under this.
No mention of political party in title, subtitle, first sentence, or first paragraph.
Therefore he must be a democrat.
what about that corrupt bunch in Mingo County and over in Kentucky in Pike County? There’s so much corruption in the county courthouse....that Pike County Judge is being investigated by the State Auditor; FBI is in Mingo County.
WV ping thing!
Interstate racketeering. Will he be brought up on RICO charges and have all of his assets seized prior to trial? Or is that only for drug dealers and the anti-abortion movement?
This is where the Hatfields and McCoys duked it out. Sounds like the area hasn’t had a whole lot of improvement in the corruption department since then.
Sleazy corrupt politicians are normal in WV. And why not? The people won’t even get rid of Grand Kleagle Byrd, the biggest crook of all. I have some relatives that still live in southern WV. There has been so much of this unlawfulness that by this time it’s expected that all people running for office or office holders to be crooked.