Prosecutor says legislator Hank Wilkins took $100,000 in bribes from indicted lobbyist | Arkansas Blog:
"Let's now say this: Every incident in which Rusty Cranford or his company figured in a state distribution of GIF money has to be viewed in light of Hank Wilkins, Micah Neal, Jon Woods and Eddie Cooper. Association is not proof of illegal activity, but it carries an aroma. There are dozens of legislators with such associations. The money sent to Ecclesia College in Springdale alone had many legislative backers. The Arkansas Times has been howling about that money for years. Why was a tiny Christian college getting hundreds of thousands in tax money when state institutions numerous legislators represented got nothing? Perhaps it was just Jon Woods' charm that brought others on board. His charitable interest in Ecclesia knew no bounds. He passed a bill to authorize higher education department money to be channeled to Ecclesia, whose president, a friend of Woods, also has been indicted. (It didn't come to pass.) He talked at one point of having medical marijuana tax revenue dedicated to Ecclesia, but that idea, fortunately, didn't make the ballot measure."
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