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Terri Hodge pleads guilty: Prisoner advocate to leave Lege in disgrace

Texas state Rep. Terri Hodge yesterday pled guilty "to failing to pay taxes on $74,000 in income, including more than $32,000 in bribes." She'd been accused of other serious charges to which she did not plead guilty, including accepting bribes from a developer and "peddling her influence to get inmates released on parole in exchange for money." Here are the lowlights from the Dallas News:State Rep. Terri Hodge provided a dramatic twist to the FBI's public corruption investigation Wednesday by agreeing to resign from the Texas House after pleading guilty to failing to pay taxes on $74,000 in income, including more than $32,000 in bribes.Hodge, D-Dallas, also admitted that she never paid taxes on another $41,000, some of which was money she pilfered from her own campaign war chest for personal expenses...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 04, 2010 (boomark / email).