Charles Walker (Georgia politician)

Charles W. Walker, Sr. (born November 8, 1947) is a former state senator in the legislature of the state of Georgia. He was first elected in 1990. In 1996, he became Georgia's first African-American Senate Majority Leader. Walker is a Democrat and is from Augusta, Georgia.

Walker owned a myriad of small enterprises under the name The Walker Group. One of Walker's first ventures was a convenience store called "Reklaw's", which is Walker spelled backwards.

Walker started a newspaper called The Augusta Focus that served Augusta's black community. It often expressed opposing viewpoints to Augusta's only daily newspaper, The Augusta Chronicle.

Convicted in 2005 by a federal court in Augusta on charges including tax evasion, mail fraud, theft, misusing campaign funds, and conspiracy (127 counts, in all),[1][2] Walker was serving a ten-year sentence at a Federal Correctional Institution in Estill, South Carolina. His projected release date was September 26, 2022.[3]

An appeal of his convictions was rejected on July 6, 2007.[4]

Walker filed a petition for habeas corpus in March 2009. The federal judge who presided over his trial recused himself from presiding over Walker's petition in May 2009.[1]

Walker was released from custody in late 2016.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Walker judge recuses himself". The Augusta Chronicle. May 20, 2009.
  2. 1 2 "Charles Walker gets early release from federal probation". The Augusta Chronicle. November 1, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Inmate Locator - Locate Federal inmates from 1982 to present". Federal Bureau of Prisons.
  4. ↑ U.S. v. Walker Archived May 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. (11th Cir. 2007).
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