Jessi Turnure at KARK/Fox 16 reports that Henry Wilkins plans to resign as Jefferson County judge following allegations that he accepted bribes while a state legislator.
Wilkins had told
As yet, no comment from him on the statement in federal court last week by a prosecuting attorney that Wilkins, who has not been charged with a crime, told the FBI had taken $100,000 in bribes from lobbyist Rusty Cranford, who’s been indicated in an embezzlement scheme involving a major provider of health care in the Medicaid program.
He told