Chris Epps
Latest Stories
prison_contracts-bribery_93994.jpg
Attorney John Colette discusses with reporters the almost 20 year prison sentence handed down to former state corrections commissioner Chris Epps, by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate, at the federal courthouse in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, May 24, 2017. Epps pleaded guilty in 2015 to money laundering and filing false tax returns in connection with nearly $1.5 million in bribes he took from contractors doing business with Mississippi prisons. Prosecutors had recommended that Epps spend only 13 years in prison because he implicated others in the bribery scheme but Wingate sentenced Epps to 19 years, seven months. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
prison_contracts-bribery_94099.jpg
Attorney John Colette discusses with reporters the almost 20 year prison sentence handed down to former state corrections commissioner Chris Epps, by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate, at the federal courthouse in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, May 24, 2017. Epps pleaded guilty in 2015 to money laundering and filing false tax returns in connection with nearly $1.5 million in bribes he took from contractors doing business with Mississippi prisons. Prosecutors had recommended that Epps spend only 13 years in prison because he implicated others in the bribery scheme but Wingate sentenced Epps to 19 years, seven months. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
prison_contracts-bribery_03832.jpg
This is a Madison County Detention Center booking photograph taken May 17, 2017, in Canton, Miss., of former state corrections commissioner Chris Epps, who pleaded guilty in 2015 to money laundering and filing false tax returns in connection with nearly $1.5 million in bribes he took from contractors doing business with Mississippi prisons. He has been jailed for violating terms of his bond. Federal prosecutors are recommending that Epps spend 13 years in prison, although U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate has warned both parties that he might give a heavier sentence. (Madison County Detention Center, via AP)
