{"id":70268,"date":"2013-01-18T06:47:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T06:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/guilty-plea-in-us-virgin-islands-corruption-case.php"},"modified":"2013-01-18T06:47:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T06:47:25","slug":"guilty-plea-in-us-virgin-islands-corruption-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/guilty-plea-in-us-virgin-islands-corruption-case.php","title":{"rendered":"Guilty plea in US Virgin Islands corruption case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP)  A former senator in the    U.S. Virgin Islands pleaded guilty Thursday in a public    corruption case.  <\/p>\n<p>    Alvin Williams Jr. entered the plea to racketeering, one of    nine charges he faced after he was indicted by a grand jury in    November. He faces up to 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine as    well as forfeiture penalties and restitution.  <\/p>\n<p>    Williams, 34, acknowledged that he attempted to bribe an    official to steer business to a company owned by his father and    to soliciting bribes from developers in the U.S. Caribbean    territory. The former politician also admitted that he demanded    salary kickbacks from his legislative staff and to having staff    members do his coursework for an online college degree from the    University of Phoenix.  <\/p>\n<p>    Williams, whose term in the territorial legislature expired    Monday, appeared downcast as he entered his plea in federal    court in St. Thomas. Defense attorney Gordon Rhea said he    accepts responsibility.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/caribbean\/2013\/01\/17\/guilty-plea-virgin-islands-corruption-case\/BILzDL5YuyJY1T9Oaq24NJ\/story.html\" title=\"Guilty plea in US Virgin Islands corruption case\">Guilty plea in US Virgin Islands corruption case<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) A former senator in the U.S <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/guilty-plea-in-us-virgin-islands-corruption-case.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islands"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}