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Former Person County DA convicted in wife-hiring scheme now facing bribery charges

A former Person County district attorney, already convicted in a corruption case, now faces bribery charges.
Posted 2022-07-19T02:12:56+00:00 - Updated 2022-07-19T02:51:16+00:00
Former Person Co. DA faces bribery charges

A former Person County district attorney, already convicted in a corruption case, now faces bribery charges.

A grand jury Monday handed up indictments against Wallace Bradsher for accepting a bribe and obstruction of justice related to a 2015 case when he was District Attorney.

Search warrants from the SBI obtained by WRAL show Bettie Yarboro-Jackson paid Bradsher with some of her lottery winnings to get drug charges dropped against her son.

Yarboro-Jackson was arrested Monday on charges of offering a bribe and obstruction of justice.

Bradsher, who has not yet been arrested in this case, was convicted in 2018 and served five months in prison for a scheme to give a no-show job to the wife of another DA.

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