Former House Speaker Rick Johnson and three others were charged in connection with a bribery scheme related to the state’s medical marijuana licensing board.
At a press conference in downtown Lansing, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Mark Totten said Johnson took more than $100,000 in bribes after then-Republican Gov. Rick Snyder appointed Johnson chairman of the state’s medical marijuana licensing board, where he served from May 2017 through April 2019.
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