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Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Friday, February 12, 2021
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A second former official of a Mississippi Indian tribe and his wife have pleaded guilty in connection with faked travel costs.
Kevin Edwards, 48, and Sheena Edwards, 45, of Walnut Grove, pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiring to launder money and are scheduled for sentencing May 11 in Jackson, federal prosecutors said in a news release Friday.
An indictment handed up in September also had charged the couple with defrauding the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians while Kevin Edwards was a member of the tribal council, and with misleading a bank to get loans, prosecutors said.