Bontiea Goss and Tommy Ray Goss could face prison time and substantial financial forfeiture in a bribery scandal that affected multiple Arkansas lawmakers.
Former Chief Judge Leon Holmes of the Eastern District of Arkansas will represent Hutchinson, who's appealing his relatively tough sentence to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Phyllis Wilkins, the wife of former state Sen. Henry "Hank" Wilkins IV of Pine Bluff, has died less than a month after her husband went to prison. She was 64.
Former state Sen. Henry “Hank” Wilkins IV has begun serving his prison sentence that resulted from a sprawling bribery/kickback public corruption case.
Former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson's attorney today filed notice that Hutchinson plans to appeal the relatively tough sentence handed down by a federal judge in Missouri last week.
A federal judge in Missouri today sentenced former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson to four years and two months in prison in a sprawling bribery scheme, and that's on top of the almost four-year prison sentence Hutchinson already faced.
The federal prosecution in the Western District of Missouri has filed its own recommendation on sentencing for Hutchinson, a nephew of former Gov. Asa Hutchinson and son of former U.S. Sen. Tim Hutchinson.
Former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson today asked a federal judge to sentence him to the same prison term — a year and one day — as two others already sentenced in the same sprawling bribery scheme that spanned two states and ended political careers.