Posted on 06/08/2006 1:12:46 PM PDT by OrangeDaisy
Seven people, including five current or former state lawmakers, were busted as part of an FBI/TBI public corruption sting. The two-year undercover investigation was named “Operation Tennessee Waltz.”
Capitol Hill Corruption: Roscoe Dixon Convicted Posted: 6/8/2006 2:01:00 PM Updated: 6/8/2006 2:34:44 PM
A federal jury in Memphis convicted former state Senator Roscoe Dixon Thursday afternoon of extortion for taking payoffs in the Tennessee Waltz corruption investigation.
The Democratic former legislator had been charged with seeking and accepting payoffs from E-Cycle Management, a fake FBI company that offered bribes to state and local officials across Tennessee.
He was charged with taking $9,500 in bribes to help E-Cycle with what he thought was getting state law changed so the company could buy and recycle used government computers.
Dixon wasn't immediately available for comment.
The jury deliberated the case over two days, returning the verdict at midafternoon Thursday.
Dixon is one of five current or former state legislators charged it the Tennessee Waltz case that rocked the Legislature a year ago. His case was the first to go to trial.
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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