Former state lottery commissioner Kevin Geddings will be sentenced this morning for hiding his business ties to a major lottery vendor.
In 2006, a jury found Geddings guilty of five counts of mail fraud related to his failure to disclose a relationship with Scientific Games, which sought the lottery contract.
Geddings had been appointed by former House speaker Jim Black, who later resigned and pleaded guilty to a federal corruption charge.
U.S. District Court Judge James Dever III has said that Geddings may have committed perjury during his testimony in the fraud case.
Geddings will be sentenced at 9 a.m. Dome will be there, but we probably won't have Internet access.
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