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Former Michigan marijuana board head Rick Johnson has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison over his role in a bribery scheme.

Rick Johnson admitted to accepting at least $110,000 when he led the state's marijuana licensing board.

The former chairperson of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Licensing Board (MMLB) has been sentenced to 55 months in prison for soliciting and accepting bribes.

A man formerly known as a powerful Michigan lawmaker was sentenced Thursday to nearly five years in federal prison for accepting bribes as head of a marijuana licensing board. Rick Johnson admitted accepting at least $110,000 when he led the board from 2017 to 2019. “I am a corrupt politician,” Johnson told the judge, according to The Detroit News.

A man formerly known as a powerful Michigan lawmaker was sentenced Thursday to nearly five years in federal prison for accepting bribes as head of a marijuana licensing board.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office – Western District of Michigan says 48-year-old Leticia Gallarzo used the identity of a licensed nurse to seek work at a hospice facility and nursing home.

If convicted, Gallarzo faces a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison for wire fraud and two years mandatory imprisonment for aggravated identity theft.

CASS — The Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society, the organization based in Clifton Forge, Virginia, that preserves and publishes the history of the C&O Ra

Rashad Trice, the man charged in the kidnapping and killing of Lansing toddler Wynter Cole-Smith, could face the death penalty in his federal case.

A Grand Rapids man with an extensive criminal history was sentenced to prison for illegally possessing a firearm, U.S. Attorney Mark Totten announced Tuesday.D