Georgia candidate behind 'deportation bus' pleads guilty

[Judi Lynn]

Source: ABC News

Georgia candidate behind 'deportation bus' pleads guilty
ByTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GAINESVILLE, Ga. — May 29, 2019, 1:31 PM ET

A former Georgia gubernatorial candidate who campaigned in a "deportation bus" has pleaded guilty to falsely reporting that computer servers were stolen from his office.

Michael Williams, a Republican ex-state senator, was indicted in December in Hall County, northeast of Atlanta, on charges of insurance fraud and lying to investigators.

District Attorney Lee Darragh told news outlets Williams pleaded guilty under Georgia's First Offender Act. He was sentenced last week to serve four years of probation, 120 hours of community service and a $5,000 fine.

The charges stem from an investigation after Williams reported a burglary in May 2018.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/georgia-candidate-deportation-bus-pleads-guilty-63351212

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Michael Williams . . Republican ex-state senator

[Hoyt]

1. This loser was even more racist than the eventual winner, KKKemp.

Wish he’d been sentenced to jail time, though.

[cstanleytech]

2. He might or might not be more racists but Kemps still extremely sleazy and unethical imo.

[Hoyt]

3. Oh, no doubt.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. I am surprised that they didn't make him drive a bus as part of his punishment...would have been...

fitting.

[YOHABLO]

5. I wonder if this guy can even speak a couple words of Espanol.

[Mc Mike]

6. Xenophobic nazi, crooked felon scammer. He's got all the qualifications needed

to be a repug politician.

Though it'd be nice if we could work a hypocritical sex scandal in there, too.