Kentucky official faces vote buying charges
Judge-executive charged along with nine others
Photographer: Getty Images
Posted: 06/11/2010
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A southern Kentucky official and nine other people have been charged with conspiracy to buy votes and vote buying in the 2006 elections.
A federal grand jury in Bowling Green on Thursday indicted 53-year-old Wilbur P. Graves, the Monroe County Judge-Executive, along with the others in two separate cases.
All the defendants are scheduled to appear in federal court in Bowling Green June 23.
A news relesase from the U.S. Attorney's office in Louisville did not specify how much each voter was allegedly paid.
Graves is only named in one of the cases. A message left at a number listed for Graves was not immediately returned Thursday.
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