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[News] From 'Political Prosecution' to Guilty Plea: How an FBI Sting Brought Down Jackson's Mayor and Its Top Prosecutor

Jackson's former mayor admitted taking $50,000 from FBI agents posing as developers, one of five officials felled by a single sting, but his plea to a lone conspiracy count leaves the case's central legal question, what counts as an "official act," forever untested.

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