Wilkins will get extra time to report back to jail attributable to well being issues

A decide has agreed to offer former state Sen. Henry “Hank” Wilkins IV extra time earlier than reporting to federal jail in mild of Wilkins’ ongoing well being issues.

Below a current order by U.S. District Choose Brian Miller in Little Rock, Wilkins is now scheduled to report on Might 1. Miller granted the extension after Invoice Stanley, an legal professional for Hankins, mentioned the previous senator underwent a colonoscopy which revealed a number of polyps. Stanley mentioned Wilkins, 68, additionally was present process therapies for degenerative spinal illness and kidney failure.

Wilkins, a Pine Bluff Democrat, was charged in a sprawling bribery/kickback public corruption case and was sentenced to a 12 months and sooner or later in jail. Wilkins additionally faces three years of supervised launch after jail and $123,000 in restitution to the state of Arkansas.

Like Republican Jeremy Hutchinson, Wilkins was convicted within the Most well-liked Household Healthcare bribery/kickback public corruption case. Wilkins pleaded responsible in 2018 to conspiring to commit bribery. He admitted taking $80,000 in bribes, masked as contributions to a church for which he was a pastor, in return for steering almost a quarter-million in state cash to Medicaid-financed well being care suppliers.

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