If there’s one thing we’ve learned from movies and TV shows about prison, it’s that cigarettes are a popular currency behind bars, and apparently the same holds true for e-cigarettes. But if you’re a sheriff caught running a lucrative e-cig business for prisoners, you could end up one yourself.
Former Rutherford County, TN, sheriff Robert Arnold was recently sentenced to 50 months in prison on federal corruption charges stemming from his part in an alleged get-rich-quick scheme that involved selling electronic cigarettes to jail inmates through jail employees.
According to the Department of Justice, Arnold admitted to using his official position as Sheriff to operate and gain financially from a company called JailCigs.
He also admitted that he concealed his involvement in the company and misrepresented the benefits that Rutherford County was supposedly receiving from JailCigs.
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That's how alot of Gard's get so rich. Like one from Kent Island selling crab's now!
ReplyDeleteIt's Tennessee....why is this shocking?
ReplyDeleteYou're talking about a state where while the rest of the world is shouting for revolution, TN is begging for evolution. "We want our thuuuuuuumbs"!!!!
I just spit soda through my nose.
DeleteThat was hilarious.