Convictions for Video Poker Bribes Upheld 
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Published: November 14, 2011
Tags: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Criminal, Judge Barbara Milano Keenan
A former Buncombe County, N.C., sheriff who participated in a scheme to illegally bring out-of-state video poker machines into the state and who accepted bribes to allow machines to be used in certain locations has his conspiracy and bribery convictions upheld by the 4th Circuit.
Defendant Bobby Lee Medford was convicted by a jury of numerous ...
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