Commissary vendor pleads guilty to organized crime charges

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i should mention after reporting how sheriffs in bexar and potter counties were hounded out of office over and beyond allegations of commissary-related bribery, prosecutors finally nailed down a conviction of one of the companies alleged to have bribed them, reported the dallas newscast (”jail food provider based in dallas institute guilty in organized crime case,” sept. 6):

The president of a Dallas company that provides food services for several jails around the state, along with the company itself, has been found guilty in the bribing of a former Potter County sheriff.

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Mid-America Services Inc. will pay a $100,000 fine for engaging in organized criminal activity, according to the terms of a plea agreement finalized Friday in Collin County.

This comes a day after Robert Austin Jr., Mid-America president, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of giving a gift to a public servant. Mr. Austin, who was accused of using bribes to obtain contracts, was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to pay a $4,000 fine acheter viagra cialis.

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Potter County will receive the fines from both cases, which were moved to McKinney from Amarillo on a motion for venue change.

The guilty pleas are the culmination of a two-year investigation by the FBI into public corruption allegations against former Potter County Sheriff Michael Shumate.


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