Phillip A. Hamilton, a former Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates accused of leveraging his office and power over the budget of Old Dominion University to set up a side gig at the school, was convicted Wednesday on one count of federal program bribery and one count of extortion under color of official right.As TPM previously reported Hamilton pushed through a bill to give a center at the university $500,000 per year in exchange for being made director of the program, a position which paid him $40,000. From a DOJ press release:
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