Posted on 12/17/2007 8:10:20 PM PST by SmithL
Former Memphis City Council member Rickey Peete has been ordered to report to federal prison on Jan. 3 to begin serving a 51-month sentence for accepting $12,000 in bribes for his vote on a zoning issue.
Peete, 52, pleaded guilty to the federal charges in June, his second conviction for selling his votes.
He was ordered Monday to report next month to the Federal Prison Camp at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Ala.
He will join former County Commissioner Michael Hooks who began serving a 26-month sentence there last summer for accepting $26,200 in bribes from informants or FBI agents posing as crooked businessmen seeking business with the county.
Peete was convicted in 1989 of extorting a $1,000 bribe from a developer and served two years in federal prison. He was reelected to the council in 1985.
And yes, Edmund Ford is another uncle of wannabe-Senator, Harold Ford, Jr.
No mention of party affiliation, so I assume he’s a Democrat.
You win!
Better the crook that you know, rather than one you don't?
$12,000? Guilty plea? Really, this guy diserves no trust at all. He sold cheap, then folded.
NEVER buy elect a politician who doesn't stay bought rented.
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