{"id":22857,"date":"2021-07-26T22:01:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T03:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arknews.org\/?p=22857"},"modified":"2021-07-26T22:26:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T03:26:30","slug":"juror-sent-home-with-covid-but-political-bribery-trial-moves-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arknews.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/26\/juror-sent-home-with-covid-but-political-bribery-trial-moves-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Juror sent home with COVID, but political bribery trial moves forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22786\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22786\" src=\"http:\/\/arknews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/maggio-baker.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arknews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/maggio-baker.jpeg 1400w, https:\/\/arknews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/maggio-baker-700x394.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/arknews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/maggio-baker-1170x659.jpeg 1170w, https:\/\/arknews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/maggio-baker-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state senator Gilbert Baker (left) and former circuit judge Mike Maggio. (Credit: Brian Chilson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"\">The long-awaited bribery trial of former state Sen. Gilbert Baker, a former Republican lobbyist from Conway, began Monday with news that a juror had contracted the coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">The unidentified juror had been present for jury selection Friday and contacted the court Sunday night to advise of the diagnosis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. excused the juror, who did not attend Monday\u2019s court session, and named one of three alternates to fill the vacancy,\u00a0 Marshall did so only after polling the jurors to make sure none of them objected to continuing with the trial. None did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Marshall has required protective masks be worn in the courthouse in downtown Little Rock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Baker, a former chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party and a University of Central Arkansas executive, is charged with bribery, wire fraud and conspiracy in an alleged plot to benefit himself, former Faulkner County Circuit Judge Michael Maggio and Michael Morton, a nursing-home owner and campaign financier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">During opening statements, Assistant U.S. Attorney Julie Peters told a story of greed, power, political favors and corruption. Defense attorney Annie Depper said jurors would not hear any evidence of bribery because there was no bribery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Both attorneys\u2019 narratives and questioning of the first witnesses also suggested Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Rhonda Wood\u2019s name will become an integral part of both the case for Baker and the case against him. Wood and Maggio were friends who had worked in the same courthouse when both were circuit judges in Faulkner County.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">The Baker indictment, filed in January 2019, accuses him of being the middleman in a plot to bribe Maggio, who presided over a negligence lawsuit against a Greenbrier nursing home owned by Morton. Resident Martha Bull, 76, of Perryville died there in April 2008, less than two weeks after entering the facility. She was never taken to a hospital despite screams of pain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Maggio, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence, pleaded guilty to taking a bribe in 2013 to lower a jury's $5.2 million judgment to $1 million in a negligence lawsuit Bull\u2019s family filed against Greenbrier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">\u201cWe are here today because Gilbert Baker bribed Mike Maggio to make that happen,\u201d Peters said Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Depper, however, noted that Maggio could have overturned the verdict and granted a motion for a new trial, helping Morton even more so.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">The key events that will be the focus of Baker\u2019s trial occurred in 2013, after the Bull case resulted in the $5.2 million judgment against Morton\u2019s nursing home. Peters told jurors that Morton called Baker after learning of the verdict \u201cand for more than six minutes, he chewed out Gilbert Baker.\u201d Upon hanging up, Baker immediately texted Maggio, she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">At one point, Peters said, Baker and Maggio had gone out to eat with Morton, and Baker made it clear to Morton that he needed four things:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Financial support for Maggio, who was preparing to run for the Arkansas Court of Appeals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Financial support for Wood, then an appeals court judge preparing to run for the Arkansas Supreme Court in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Money for Arkansans for Lawsuit Reform, a nonprofit organization that lobbied to overhaul the state\u2019s lawsuit regulations by limiting monetary judgements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Donations for UCA, Baker\u2019s employer at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">On July 8, 2013, prosecutors have said, Morton sent a FedEx envelope containing $228,000 in checks to Baker \u2014 money to cover those requests. Of that sum, $48,000 was for Wood, $100,000 was for UCA and $50,000 was for the lawsuit organization. The remaining $30,000 was for a group of political action committees. Maggio\u2019s campaign got some but not all of the money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">UCA later returned the money to Morton after learning of controversy surrounding the donation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">The next day, July 10, Maggio ordered the lawsuit judgment reduced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Depper said Morton will testify that the timing was \u201ccoincidental.\u201d She said Baker was \u201ca phenomenal fundraiser.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">She said Maggio was a conservative judge who \u201cstruggled\u201d with his decision in the lawsuit over Bull\u2019s death. He even consulted with several friends and professional associates about the matter, she said \u2014 Wood, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox and a law clerk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Depper noted that Maggio tried unsuccessfully to withdraw his guilty plea in 2016 and said he had been pressured by the U.S. attorney\u2019s office into pleading guilty. He feared prosecutors were going to indict his wife, Dawn Maggio, Depper said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Depper repeatedly referred to a text in which Baker told Maggio he would have Morton\u2019s campaign support \u201cwin, lose or draw.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">\u201cEveryone knows that means \u2018no matter what,\u2019\u201d Depper said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"\">This reporting is courtesy of the<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arknews.org\/\"> <i><span style=\"\">Arkansas Nonprofit News Network<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"\">, an independent, nonpartisan news project dedicated to producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-awaited bribery trial of former state Sen. Gilbert Baker, a former Republican lobbyist from Conway, began Monday with news that a juror had contracted the coronavirus. The unidentified juror had been present for jury selection Friday and contacted the court Sunday night to advise of the diagnosis. U.S. District Judge D. 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