Federal Judge Sentences Disgraced Former Delegate Hamilton

By WYDaily Staff Friday, August 12, 2011

Former state legislator Phil Hamilton, who represented part of James City County in the 93rd district for 21 years, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Richmond to 9 1/2 years in federal prison after being convicted in May of bribery and extortion.

The charges related to a teacher training center Hamilton, vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, helped create at Old Dominion University. The center was funded with $500,000 in taxpayer money, and Hamilton - who worked as an administrator for Newport News Public Schools - was hired as the center's part-time director for $40,000 a year.

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