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Commissary vendor pleads guilty to organized crime charges

I should mention after reporting how Sheriffs in Bexar and Potter Counties were hounded out of office over allegations of commissary-related bribery, prosecutors finally nailed down a conviction of one of the companies alleged to have bribed them, reported the Dallas News ("Jail food provider based in Dallas found 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. 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...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 12, 2008 (boomark / email).