Posted on 08/12/2008 5:44:58 PM PDT by dixiechick2000
OXFORD - Beef Plant defendants Nixon Cawood and Charles Morehead, executives with The Facility Group of Georgia, are set to change their plea to guilty on a one-count information Wednesday and Thursday, respectively.
So says two filings late today in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Mississippi.
Cawood's hearing is set for 10 a.m. before Chief Judge Michael P. Mills. Moreheads is set for 10 a.m. Thursday.
An information is a legal charge short of an indictment, which comes from a grand jury.
No other details were available, but it seems possible Cawood and Morehead will follow his TFG colleague Robert Moultrie, who also pleaded guilty to a one-count information Monday.
Moultrie admitted he and Cawood agreed to pay then-Gov. Ronnie Musgrove another $25,000 campaign contribution - on top of an earlier $20,000 - to ensure goodwill should they need his help later on relating to the Beef Plant.
The Facility Group was hired in 2003 by the state to consult on the plant's design and then on its construction.
The Yalobusha facility closed soon after it opened, putting hundreds of people out of work and leaving the state holding the bag on $55 million on loan guarantees.
The three executives - plus their companies - originally were indicted in March on 16 counts they conspired to bribe Musgrove and defraud the state to repay their campaign contributions.
Musgrove, now a U.S. Senate candidate, insists he did nothing wrong. He has not been indicted.
In Moultrie's plea deal, the government agreed to dismiss all those charges against him and the companies, in exchange for this new guilty plea and his cooperation in their continuing investigations.
I believe that the point was to illustrate that the article highlighted by this thread DID NOT mention party affiliation, and that the other poster HAD to go to wiki to get that info. Per the MSM Stylebook, party affiliation is not mentioned when it is a democrat caught crooked...JFK
I eagerly await John Grisham’s book on this.
I live in a navy blue state.
Any news from “home” is good news.
I’m having a great time watching Ronnie self-destruct.
Ronnie’s chickens...are coming home...to roost. ;o)
My goodness...John Grisham...it could happen.
lol
It’s so good to see you.
FWIW Ronnie sings in the choir at the First Baptist
Church in Jackson. I know the guy that stands
directly in front of him. He says Ronnie has a
beautiful “ high tenor” voice.
“...He says Ronnie has a
beautiful “ high tenor” voice...”
If he does time, that should make him real popular with his room mates.
I am sure it is about to go alto...
John will turn the D-lawyer into the hero trying to save the charity from evil republicians.
Now...why am I not surprised? ;o)
LOL! He has always reminded me of Gomer Pyle.
Now even his logic is Gomerisk. Sheezam!
It made me LOL so much I almost fell outta my chair!
I sent that to every email address in my book.
GOOD! The more who see it, the better.
Plus, it’s nice to share. ;o)
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