Levy County Arrests
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Posted: 11:24 AM Dec 5, 2009
Levy County Arrests
Two former commissioners guilty of bribery charges.
Reporter: Associated Press
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BRONSON, Fla. (AP) -- Two suspended Levy County commissioners
have been found guilty of federal bribery charges for approving of
what they believed was a new development project.

The federal jury found 63-year-old William Samuel Yearty and Robert Anthony Parker guilty Friday of conspiring and soliciting bribes and offering their approval for developments in exchange for money or other incentives. Yearty was also charged with making false statements to a federal agent.

A video tape played at the trial showed the two officials making a deal with an FBI agent posing as a principal in a fictitious company. They were arrested in November 2008.

Two former Dixie County commissioners and a county employee were
convicted previously in a similar case.

Yearty and Parker are free until their April sentencing.
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