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Nov 5, 2009 6:38 pm US/Eastern
More Charges Against Fmr. Commissioner Eggelletion
Reportedly Took A Country Club Membership
In Exchange For His Influence On The County Commission
FORT LAUDERDALE (CBS4) ―
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Suspended Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion, Jr.
Broward County Sheriff's Office/CBS
More charges have been filed against former Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion. The Broward State Attorneys Office charged Eggelletion with one count of receiving unlawful compensation, a second-degree felony.
The former commissioner allegedly received a $32 hundred golf membership at Parkland Golf and Country Club from Shawn Chait, a representative of Prestige Homes of South Florida Inc., in exchange for nearly three years of favorable treatment for Prestige Homes on business before the county commission.
Tim Donnelly, head of SAOs Special Prosecutions Unit, said the charge brought against Eggelletion is part of an ongoing public-corruption investigation.
Eggelletion turned himself in to the Broward County Jail Thursday morning; he bonded out Thursday afternoon. Just twenty-four hours earlier Eggelletion and his attorney appeared in federal court in Fort Lauderdale in connection with his ongoing corruption case.
Last September, Eggelletion, two Broward businessmen and a Bahamian attorney were charged with conspiring to launder $900,000 from a fraudulent investment scheme.
Federal authorities allege Eggelletion took $23-thousand from undercover FBI agents to help with the money laundering scheme in the Bahamas.
During Wednesday's hearing, Eggelletion's lawyer Johnny McCray requested and received an extension; giving Eggelletion three more weeks to decide how he will plea. McCray said the extra time was needed to review hundreds of hours of recordings involved in the case.
Tuesday, a federal grand jury indicted businessman Joel "Jodi" Williams and attorney Sidney Cambridge on five counts of money laundering and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. If convicted, they face a maximum penalty of 20-years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
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