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Paul Jerry Bookout (born June 30, 1962) is an American Democratic politician from the state of Arkansas. He is a former member of the Arkansas Senate from Jonesboro in Craighead County. Bookout served as President of the Senate from 2011 to 2013. He served in the House from 1999 to 2005 and was elected to fill the term of his late father, Jerry Bookout, in the Senate in 2006. The elder Bookout had held the seat from 1973 to 1997, and again from 2003 until his death. Paul Bookout resigned from the Senate in August 2013 after it was discovered that he spent campaign funds on personal expenses. Bookout was fined $7,000 in two separate actions by the Arkansas Ethics Commission, and his case is under review by a special prosecutor. On March 11, 2015, Bookout entered a negotiated plea in federal court to a felony mail fraud count for using interstate communications to file a false report in the scheme. He will not be sentenced until a report by the federal probation office. The U.S. attorney's office, as part of the agreement will not make a sentencing recommendation, for or against an enhanced sentence. Under the agreement he'll pay about $150,158, though it is not certain who will get the money, the state or contributors. The crime could carry a sentence up to 20 years. Judge Brian Miller noted he could depart from guidelines, in either direction. The amount he owes is the amount from two campaign cycles studied by prosecutors within the three-year period under which charges could be filed. But he spent far more over the years in a similar manner.(1) Bookout was succeeded in the Senate by the Republican John R. Cooper of Jonesboro, a retired employee of American Telephone & Telegraph Company, who won the special election held on January 14, 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=State Senate 21 General Election January 14, 2014 )〕 Cooper carried the backing of the Tea Party movement. ==References== (1) http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/03/11/former-sen-paul-bookout-pleads-to-federal-felony-in-expense-account-abuse 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Bookout」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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