{"id":120460,"date":"2023-10-29T23:56:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T23:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=120460"},"modified":"2023-10-29T23:56:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T23:56:28","slug":"federal-prosecutors-seek-to-jail-alabama-lawmaker-accused-of-contacting-witness-in-bribery-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=120460","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Federal prosecutors seek to jail Alabama lawmaker accused of contacting witness in bribery case&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/john-rogers-alabama-legislature-328c01198c1c53e768a79ee6302e8582\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/john-rogers-alabama-legislature-328c01198c1c53e768a79ee6302e8582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AP<\/a>: &#8220;Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to jail an Alabama lawmaker charged with trying to obstruct an investigation into alleged kickbacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In a motion filed this week, prosecutors said state Rep. John Rogers, a Democrat from Birmingham, violated the conditions of his bond by attempting to contact a key witness in the case. Prosecutors said Rogers made FaceTime calls to the witness a week after his arraignment. The witness did not answer and reported the calls to federal investigators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Rogers\u2019 defense attorney asked the court to provide a transcript of the lawmaker\u2019s Oct. 12 arraignment and the judge\u2019s instructions to the lawmaker. The defense lawyer said the transcript is needed to prepare a response to the prosecutor\u2019s request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Prosecutors have accused Rogers and his assistant of offering additional grant money as a bribe to persuade a person to give false information to federal agents who were investigating possible kickbacks. They say those bribes were paid to Rogers\u2019 assistant.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP: &#8220;Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to jail an Alabama lawmaker charged with trying to obstruct an investigation into alleged kickbacks. In a motion filed this week, prosecutors said state Rep. John Rogers, a Democrat from Birmingham, violated the conditions of his bond by attempting to contact a key witness in the case. Prosecutors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120461,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120460\/revisions\/120461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}