Posted on 04/30/2008 1:03:13 PM PDT by SmithL
Michael Hooks Jr. has been ordered to report to a federal prison facility in Mississippi in two weeks to serve his 30-day sentence for fraud.
Hooks, 33, pleaded guilty in January to accepting $1,500 in fees for consulting work at Juvenile Court in 2001 for work he did not do.
The small-scale scam led to a wide-reaching public corruption investigation dubbed the Tennessee Waltz that resulted in convictions of nearly a dozen elected officials going to prison.
Among them was his father, Michael Hooks Sr., a former Shelby County commissioner who is serving a 26-month federal prison sentence in Alabama for accepting $24,200 in bribes.
Hooks Jr., a former Memphis City Schools board member, is to report by 2 p.m. Thursday May 15 to the low-security Federal Correctional Institution at Yazoo City, Miss.
He also must serve four months of home confinement upon his release.
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And another one bites the dust!
You do realize that Michael Hooks Jr. is the grand nephew of Benjamen Hooks, past Commissioner of the FCC.
Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, does it?
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