Port Allen Mayor Resigns Amid Racketeering Charges
The mayor of Port Allen in West Baton Rouge Parish has resigned from his job and pleaded guilty to federal racketeering charges. Derek Lewis admits to accepting bribes from people pushing a garbage can cleaning business, in exchange for influencing a city contract for them. Those people were undercover FBI agents. Prosecutors are seeking no more than five years prison time for Lewis.
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