Southeast : Tucker Pleads Not Guilty in Bribe Case
U.S. Rep. Walter R. Tucker III (D-Compton) brushed past reporters without speaking Monday after being arraigned in Los Angeles before U.S. Dist. Judge Consuelo B. Marshall on charges of accepting $7,500 in bribes from a company that collects Compton’s garbage.
He also was indicted last August on separate charges of accepting $30,000 in bribes and soliciting another $250,000 from a firm that had wanted to build a state-of-the-art trash incinerator in Compton. All the charges relate to Tucker’s tenure as Compton’s mayor from 1991 to 1992.
Tucker has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
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