A Florida judge yesterday dismissed the bulk of the criminal charges filed against James R. Richburg, a former president of Northwest Florida State College, who had been indicted in a corruption case involving a state lawmaker and a construction project on the campus, according to the Northwest Florida Daily News.
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2 Responses to Florida Judge Drops Charges Against Community-College President
11200222 - October 6, 2009 at 5:28 pm
It’s really a shame that the charges were dropped; these Repiglicans use the state’s treasury for their own personal gain. They built an airplane hanger with state money and supposedly for college use, and then turned it over to a private contractor for business use!
cwinton - October 7, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Apparently the judge came to this ruling by deciding that the legislative appropriation in question, while perhaps unethical, did not constitute a criminal offense … huh? There doesn’t seem to be any dispute that Richburg, the legislator (Sansom), and the developer (Odom) colluded on gaining an appropriation for a construction project intended for private gain (nominally Odom’s). The citizens of Florida are not being well served by the justice system if this kind of legal hair splitting allows the perpetrators of such flagrant corrupt practices to be let off the hook. Let’s hope the State’s appellate court sets the judge straight.