Four Florida officials indicted for corruption
From Sunshine Review
8 November 2008
In an ever widening corruption investigation in northern Florida, four officials have been indicted. The four men, two from Cross City and two from Levy County, are accused of conspiring and soliciting bribes in connection with their officials positions.[1]
Four indicted
Accused are Levy County commissioners William Samuel Yearty and Robert Anthony Parker, along with Cross City councilman Marcellus Dawson and Cross City superintendent Johnny Miller Green.
According to the indictments, Green and Dawson met at the Bonefish Grill in November 2007, where they each accepted several hundred dollars. Yearty and Parker met for dinner at the Hilton in Gainesville to discuss a trip to New York in early December 2007, and accepted $10,000.[1] Dawson, Green, and Yearty have also been accused of making false statements during the investigation.
Initial corruption investigation
The corruption investigation in north Florida first became public last month, when three former Dixie County officials were arrested by the FBI. Former commissioners John Lee Driggers and Alton James, along with former building and zoning inspector Willie Dewey Keen Jr. were also accused of soliciting bribes and lying during the investigation.[1]
