State Representative Resigns and Pleads Guilty to Drug Money Laundering
Georgia State Representative Walter Ronnie Sailor, Jr., who represents District 93, which incorporates parts of DeKalb and Rockdale Counties, pled guilty on Tuesday to a federal money laundering sting count, and further resigned from the General Assembly. Sailor is alleged to have approached an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation agent posing as a drug dealer at an Atlanta hotel in November 2007, allegedly offering to launder drug proceeds for a fee. The agent allegedly met Sailor several times to provide him with sums of money represented to be drug proceeds, and Sailor would allegedly meet with the agent to provide the agent with checks for the proceeds. Sailor was arrested last December, and immediately began cooperating with the government. He will be sentenced in May.
