Bennett Malone
Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
from the 45th district
In office
1979–2015
Succeeded byJay Mathis
Personal details
Born(1944-01-06)January 6, 1944
Carthage, Mississippi
DiedDecember 17, 2017(2017-12-17) (aged 73)
Jackson, Mississippi
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseTeresa Dolan
ChildrenRicky, Gina, Krystol, Brittany
Residence(s)Carthage, Mississippi
OccupationBusinessman, cattle rancher

Bennett Malone (January 6, 1944 – December 17, 2017) was an American politician in the state of Mississippi.

Malone was a native of Carthage, Mississippi, and attended East Central Junior College. He was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1978, and served the 45th district from 1979 to 2015. He served on the Corrections, Forestry, Transportation, Ways and Means, and Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks committees. A businessman and cattle rancher, he was a Democrat. He was married to Teresa Dolan Malone. He died on December 17, 2017, from a long illness.[1][2][3]

On July 25, 2016, his wife was indicted for giving bribes to Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps through former legislator, Cecil McCrory, from 2010 until 2014, on behalf of medical services provider AdminPros LLC. She initially pleaded not guilty.[4][5]

On October 6, 2017, she changed her plea to guilty to paying kickbacks to Epps in exchange for receiving an MDOC consulting agreement. She admitted to getting $225,000.00 from the agreement with an out-of-state contractor arranged by Epps, receiving $5,000.00 monthly between October, 2010, through July, 2014, from which she paid Epps between $1,000.00 to $1,750.00 month. Malone was to be sentenced on January 10, 2018, by federal Judge Henry Travillion Wingate and faced a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000.00 fine.[6] However she was admitted to a Birmingham, Alabama, hospital due to complications from a lung transplant, and Judge Wingate indefinitely delayed her sentencing.[7] Malone was sentenced on May 24, 2019.[8] She is being held at the FMC Carswell, in Fort Worth, Texas, with a scheduled release date of July 24, 2022.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Votesmart
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-06-03. Retrieved 2014-01-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ Pender, Geoff (December 17, 2017). "Longtime lawmaker Bennett Malone dies". The Clarion Ledger. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Man pleads guilty to plot to bribe ex-corrections chief", Sun Herald, Jeff Amy (AP), August 3, 2016. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Former state Rep. Bennett Malone's wife charged in Epps' case", The Clarion-Ledger, Jimmie E. Gates and Geoff Pender, July 25, 2016. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  6. ↑ Wife of Former Representative Pleads guilty to Paying Kickbacks to Former Corrections Commissioner, Department of Justice, October 6, 2017. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  7. ↑ Judge delays bribery sentencing for woman who cited health, Seattle Times, (AP), January 9, 2018. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
  8. ↑ Wife of Former Mississippi Representative Sentenced for Paying Kickbacks to Former Corrections Commissioner, United States Department of Justice, May 24, 2019. Retrieved November 27, 2020.
  9. ↑ Teresa Malone, Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locater. Retrieved November 27, 2020.
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