Geddings found guilty of lobbying violation
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[##_1L|1223349847.jpg|width="130" height="90" alt=""|_##]Former North Carolina state lottery commissioner Kevin Geddings was found guilty of a lobbying law violation in state court today and will be banned from lobbying in North Carolina for the next two years, the Raleigh News & Observer reported Friday. Geddings, 42, a former Charlotte public relations executive who now is the co-owner of WFOY-AM in St. Augustine, was not in court to enter the plea.
He is to enter federal prison in the coming weeks to serve a four-year sentence. A jury in April convicted Geddings of five counts of mail fraud as part of a scheme to defraud the public of his honest services. Geddings had hid his ties to major lottery vendor Scientific Games as he sought and won a seat on the lottery commission.
His attorney, Tommy Manning of Raleigh, entered what is known as an Alford plea in court, said Wake Assistant District Attorney David Sherlin. An Alford plea allows defendants to maintain innocence but to nonetheless plead guilty because they see no other favorable alternative. Geddings has appealed his federal sentence.
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