Former Arkansas governor’s nephew, state legislator gets almost 4 years in prison

A former Arkansas lawmaker who admitted to accepting hundreds of {dollars} in bribes and submitting a false revenue tax return was sentenced Friday to just about 4 years in federal jail.

Former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson, who pleaded responsible in 2019 to submitting a false tax return and conspiracy to commit federal program bribery, was sentenced to 46 months in jail and was ordered to repay greater than $350,000 to the Arkansas and federal governments.

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Hutchinson is the nephew of former Gov. Asa Hutchinson and the son of former U.S. Sen. Tim Hutchinson.

Hutchinson pleaded responsible to the fees as a part of a sprawling corruption probe that included a number of former lawmakers and lobbyists. He is awaiting sentencing in a separate case the place he admitted to accepting hundreds of {dollars} in bribes to assist a well being nonprofit.

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As a part of a plea settlement, Hutchinson admitted to accepting greater than $150,000 from the co-owner of orthodontic clinics in change for efforts to alter a dental practices legislation. He additionally admitted that he took greater than $10,000 in marketing campaign funds for his private use and didn’t report $20,000-per-month funds he acquired from one legislation agency and different sources of revenue he knowingly hid from his taxes.

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Hutchinson, a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, resigned from the Senate in 2018 when he was first charged with spending marketing campaign funds on private bills.