A former Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates set up a plum position for himself at Old Dominion University — a job he funded through legislation he introduced at the same time he was soliciting the gig, a federal grand jury charged in an indictment on Wednesday.The scandal all started brewing back in 2007, when a bill Phillip A. Hamilton pushed through to give $500,000 per year to the Center for Teacher Quality and Educational Leadership at ODU, a program intended to train teachers for success in urban school environments. Just a day after the legislation passed, Phillip A. Hamilton and ODU officials exchanged e-mails about Hamilton getting the director job at $40,000 a year (supplementing his income as a legislator), the feds say.
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