Ex-military contractor gets prison for bribery
HOUSTON
Dorothy Ellis was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to a
single count of conspiracy to bribe public officials. U.S. District
Judge David Hittner of Houston also ordered the 53-eyar-old Texas
City woman to serve three years of probation and pay $360,000 in
restitution. She's the 14th of 16 people charged in the case to
plead guilty.
Maj. Eddie Pressley and his wife Eurica Pressley are scheduled
for trial in a Decatur, Ala., federal court Jan. 31. They allegedly
took $2.8 million in bribes from a contractor who delivered bottled
water and building fences in Kuwait and Iraq.
