JACKSON -- A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Texas man to the maximum term of five years in prison for his role in bribing Mississippi's former corrections commissioner.
U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate ordered Mark Longoria of Houston to forfeit $131,000 in profit he derived from the bribe, pay back $368,000 in restitution to the Mississippi Department of Corrections and serve three years of probation after his release.
Longoria, the CEO of Drug Testing Corp., pleaded guilty to a fel
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