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Ex-Mayor Returned to Prison After Misleading BOP to Enter Drug Program

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2009 by Brandon Sample published in Prison Legal News February, 2009, page 33
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Government Misconduct, Disclosure of Records, Drug Treatment/Rehab. Location: Florida.

Ex-Mayor Returned to Prison After Misleading BOP to Enter Drug Program

by Brandon Sample

Bill C. Campbell, the former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, was returned to federal prison after it was discovered he had lied to gain entrance into the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP). Successful ...

 

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