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Former TN lawmaker to report to prison today { Roscoe Dixon }
WBIR & AP ^ | 11/28/2006 | Barger Brian

Posted on 11/28/2006 3:20:09 PM PST by SmithL

This is the day former state senator Roscoe Dixon is scheduled to report to federal prison.

The Memphis Democrat was convicted in October and sentenced to five years and three months behind bars in the Tennessee Waltz public corruption probe.

Dixon was convicted of taking payoffs to push for changes in state law supposedly wanted by a company called E-Cycle Management. The company was a fake, however, created by the FBI as part of its investigation.

The investigation has led to indictments against eleven defendants, including five current or former state lawmakers and several local officials in Memphis and Chattanooga.

Dixon must report to a low-security federal correctional institute in Oakdale, Louisiana, by two p.m. today.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: 600wrec; cultureofcorruption; memphis; roscoedixon; tennesseewaltz; tnwaltz

1 posted on 11/28/2006 3:20:13 PM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL

rat culture of corruption. This must be either Reagan's fault or Bush's fault. I'll let you know when I figure it out, yeah whitey made him do it.


2 posted on 11/28/2006 3:41:57 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Millions of Democrat babies aborted in 1988 or earlier did not vote this year.)
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To: jmaroneps37
Let's see - do I have him on the list?

Yep.

3 posted on 11/28/2006 3:51:56 PM PST by sig226 (See my profile for the democrat culture of corruption list.)
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To: jmaroneps37

That is one firmly set jaw ... the man is dangerous, IMO.

4 posted on 11/28/2006 4:30:39 PM PST by knarf (Islamists kill each other ... News wall-to-wall, 24/7 .. don't touch that dial.)
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To: SmithL

Hehe hehe hehe hehe!


5 posted on 11/28/2006 4:44:39 PM PST by Coldwater Creek (The TERRORIST are the ones who won the midterm elections!)
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To: knarf

Old Rosco stole my handicap parking place at the P.O. one day. True story!


6 posted on 11/28/2006 4:46:03 PM PST by Coldwater Creek (The TERRORIST are the ones who won the midterm elections!)
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To: mariabush
Well darlin' .. he probably felt like you shouldn't have been handicapped ... not without his permission.

That clenched jaw looks like a handicapped space stealer.

7 posted on 11/28/2006 4:56:26 PM PST by knarf (Islamists kill each other ... News wall-to-wall, 24/7 .. don't touch that dial.)
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To: mariabush

I was pleased, too.


8 posted on 11/28/2006 5:00:09 PM PST by SmithL (Where are we going? . . . . And why are we in this handbasket????)
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To: SmithL

I'll cheer when john ford walks into prison.


9 posted on 11/29/2006 4:40:25 AM PST by GailA (Proud to admit I'm a quilt-a-holic.)
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To: GailA

A Shelby County Ford going to jail?

Never happen, at least not in my lifetime. The Butcher Brothers case proved that they have permanent immunity.


10 posted on 11/29/2006 5:58:24 AM PST by SmithL (Where are we going? . . . . And why are we in this handbasket????)
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