Madison Mayor's Husband Arrested for Corruption | Jackson Free Press | Jackson, MS

Madison Mayor's Husband Arrested for Corruption

Clarion-Ledger reports:

"James Butler, the husband of Madison Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler, was arrested today on a five-count indictment, the result of a continuing FBI task force investigation into public corruption in Madison County. Butler is charged with one count of conspiracy, one count of false pretense and three counts of mail fraud. He is the third person arrested in what prosecutors called a scheme to defraud an elderly Texas woman of the true value of 80 acres of prime development land in Madison County."

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