{"id":22922,"date":"2021-08-27T22:09:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T03:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arknews.org\/?p=22922"},"modified":"2021-08-27T22:09:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T03:09:51","slug":"former-conway-lawmaker-to-face-retrial-on-federal-bribery-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arknews.org\/index.php\/2021\/08\/27\/former-conway-lawmaker-to-face-retrial-on-federal-bribery-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Conway lawmaker to face retrial on federal bribery charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"\">Federal prosecutors plan to retry former lobbyist and political fundraiser Gilbert Baker on bribery and other charges <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arknews.org\/index.php\/2021\/08\/12\/hung-jury-on-all-but-one-count-in-gilbert-baker-trial-former-state-senator-acquitted-of-conspiracy-charge\/\"><span style=\"\">after a mistrial earlier this month.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Chief U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. on Friday set the retrial to begin in Little Rock on Oct. 4.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">On Aug. 12, a jury on its fifth day of deliberations acquitted Baker, a former state senator from Conway and former chairman of the Republican Party of Arkansas, of one count of conspiracy. The jury deadlocked on eight other charges, including one count of bribery and seven of wire fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">In its notice to the court Thursday, the U.S. attorney\u2019s office stated only that it intended to retry Baker and did not elaborate on what may have led prosecutors to that decision. The office had earlier sought and been granted permission to interview jurors who heard from the first trial who were willing to discuss the matter. Such interviews could have given prosecutors information on how jurors were divided on the case and why.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Harris declined comment Friday when asked about the retrial plans and juror interviews. Baker\u2019s defense attorney, Blake Hendrix, did not immediately return a phone message or an email seeking comment Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Prosecutors contend Baker, 64, was the middleman in an alleged plot in 2013 to bribe former Faulkner County Circuit Judge Mike Maggio on behalf of Michael Morton, a wealthy nursing home owner and campaign financier from Fort Smith.<\/span><span style=\"\"> Maggio pleaded guilty to bribery in 2015 and is serving a 10-year prison sentence. Morton has not been charged and denies wrongdoing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">The decision to retry Baker came a day after a sealed motion was filed in Maggio\u2019s case.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arknews.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/30\/former-judge-now-serving-prison-time-testifies-in-bribery-trial-of-alleged-co-conspirator\/\"><span style=\"\"> Maggio testified for the prosecution in the Baker trial<\/span><\/a><span style=\"\"> in hopes of getting his prison sentence reduced. According to U.S. Bureau of Prisons records, Maggio is not currently in the federal prison system\u2019s custody. Cooperating inmate witnesses are sometimes held temporarily in nearby facilities while they meet with federal investigators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">The Aug. 12 deadlock ended a sometimes chaotic two-week trial marked by high-profile witnesses, failing memories, legal jargon and the coronavirus pandemic. A juror came down with the virus before opening statements and was replaced by an alternate. Then, days later, Harris, one of two prosecutors handling the case, became sick and had to be replaced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Baker did not testify in his own defense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Had Baker been convicted of conspiracy, he could have been sentenced to five years in prison on the charge, which accused him of conspiring to commit bribery, wire fraud or both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">If retried and convicted of the remaining charges, he could face up to 10 years on the bribery count and up to 20 years on each of the wire fraud counts. Judges can order sentences to be served concurrently or consecutively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">The case against Baker centers around Maggio\u2019s handling of a negligence lawsuit filed against Morton\u2019s Greenbrier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center over the 2008 death of resident Martha Bull, 76, of Perryville.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Bull had entered the nursing home for what she thought would be a 30-day rehabilitation after suffering a mild stroke and an abdominal illness, but she died less than two weeks later. Despite screams of pain, staff at the facility did not take her to a hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">On May 16, 2013, a Faulkner County jury returned a $5.2 million judgment for Bull\u2019s family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">On July 8, 2013, Maggio held a hearing on the nursing home\u2019s motion for a new trial or a reduced judgment. That same day, Morton\u2019s office made out checks totaling $228,000, with $30,000 of that sum going to political action committees, or PACs, that Morton expected would in turn give the money to Maggio\u2019s campaign for the Arkansas Court of Appeals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">On July 9, 2013, a FedEx package containing the checks arrived at Baker\u2019s home. On July 10, 2013, Maggio reduced the $5.2 million judgment in the Bull lawsuit to $1 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">At Baker\u2019s trial, Maggio testified that he lowered the judgment both because he thought it was legally the right thing to do and because he was bribed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Other high-profile witnesses included<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arknews.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/27\/state-supreme-court-justice-takes-witness-stand-in-federal-bribery-trial-of-conway-lobbyist\/\"><span style=\"\"> Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Rhonda Wood<\/span><\/a><span style=\"\">, former U.S. Attorney Cody Hiland and former University of Central Arkansas President Tom Courtway. Wood used to work in the same small court annex in Conway where Maggio worked, and Hiland was the prosecuting attorney in Faulkner County during part of Maggio\u2019s judicial tenure. Baker worked as an executive assistant at UCA when the Maggio scandal began to unfold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Morton also donated $48,000 to Wood\u2019s first campaign for the high court but did so directly, rather than routing it through PACs as he did with Maggio. Prosecutors argued that Baker got Morton to donate to Maggio\u2019s campaign via PACs because it was a more roundabout, less transparent method.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Bud Cummins, who represented Baker until the indictment against him came down in January 2019, said he thought a retrial was \u201ca bad decision based on my knowledge of the case.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">Cummins served as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas from 2001 to 2006. After he withdrew from the case in 2019, the government appointed Hendrix to represent Baker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">\u201cIt boils down to this: Every fact in that trial can be explained by legal intentions,\u201d Cummins said. \u201cSo, it is very difficult to understand how a jury can know beyond a reasonable doubt that someone had corrupt intentions. Even if they believe he was guilty, they can only speculate that he had corrupt intent and that is not worthy of a second trial.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"\">This reporting is courtesy of the<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arknews.org\/\"> <b><i>Arkansas Nonprofit News Network<\/i><\/b><\/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>Federal prosecutors plan to retry former lobbyist and political fundraiser Gilbert Baker on bribery and other charges after a mistrial earlier this month. Chief U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. on Friday set the retrial to begin in Little Rock on Oct. 4. 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