From Truthout:
By Titan Barksdale
The News & Observer
Thursday 06 September 2007
As a federal prosecutor, Sam Currin spent six years prosecuting drug dealers, pornographers and other criminals. Now, he will spend nearly the same amount of time in prison himself.
Currin, 58, whose career included stints as a judge and as chairman of the state's Republican Party, became the latest North Carolina leader to be sent to jail when he was sentenced this week in federal court to 70 months behind bars on money laundering and obstruction charges.
His attorney, Mark Calloway, would not comment about the sentence.
Currin rose through the political and legal ranks as a protégé of then-Sen. Jesse Helms. He worked as an aide to Helms, a conservative Republican who eventually nominated him for the U.S. attorney position and later for a federal judgeship, which Democrats vehemently opposed. Critics of the nomination called Currin a religious and political zealot and accused him of lying in a 1982 personnel hearing over his firing of a paralegal.
Currin, 58, was never confirmed. But he served as a Superior Court judge before becoming the Republican Party chairman.
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