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Ex-sheriff bribery gets 10 years; already has life for rapes

Ex-sheriff bribery gets 10 years; already has life for rapes

A former Louisiana sheriff has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on a federal bribery conviction

ByThe Associated Press

6 April 2022, 20:31

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NEW ORLEANS — A former Louisiana sheriff was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for a federal bribery conviction, to be served at the same as his four life sentences for earlier convictions for raping boys.

U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo also ordered Rodney J. “Jack” Strain to pay a $10,000 fine, federal prosecutors said in a news release Wednesday.

Strain pleaded guilty to one of 16 federal charges against him on Dec. 1, 2021, and prosecutors dropped the others.

The plea came weeks after a St. Tammany Parish jury convicted Strain on eight charges including four counts of aggravated rape against children less than 13 years old — a crime which carries an automatic life sentence.

Strain, who served five terms before losing the 2015 election, admitted…

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