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Alabama Officials Guilty in Phone Scam
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2000, page 12
A former Alabama state auditor, County commissioner and another man pleaded guilty in July 1999 to federal charges stemming from a prison pay phone scam operated in Alabama and Louisiana by Global Tel*Link, a Mobile-based company. Former state auditor Terry Ellis pleaded guilty to tax evasion. Former Mobile County Commissioner ...
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Contractor Misconduct,
Guard Misconduct,
Government Misconduct,
Criminal Prosecution,
Telephone Rates.
Location:
Michigan.
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