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Federal investigators have charged four in a corruption probe where former Speaker Rick Johnson received more than $110,000 bribes in exchange for favorably reviewing license applications for marijuana businesses.

Johnson pleaded guilty to accepting $110,200 in cash bribes, along with gifts including private jet trips, made in exchange for approving marijuana license applications for at least two businesses.

Rick Johnson, the former chair of Michigan’s now defunct Medical Marijuana Licensing Board, has plead guilty alongside three others as part of a public corruption probe surrounding the state’s system for regulating medical marijuana.