![]() ![]() "Unfortunately, I allowed myself to mistakenly look up to him in the wrong manner." "Months later I got a call from John Raphael, who offered me an opportunity to work with him at (the National Veterans Memorial and Museum)," Myers said. He tried to start a family restaurant, but it failed. Myers said he had worked for a food-services company for 23 years when he was suddenly laid off. "Me being here is not who I am," Myers told the judge. Instead, she ordered Myers to serve six months of home confinement, four years of probation, perform community service, forfeit $17,500 - the amount of his bribe from food-service vendor Centerplate - and to repay the convention center $28,251 for the cost of an internal investigation into the scandal. ![]() District Judge Sarah Daggett Morrison told Myers that he had taken multiple corrupt actions that undermined the credibility of government and tore at the belief that officials will carry out their duties honestly. A federal probation officer, using sentencing guidelines based on the potential $11.22 million food vendor Centerplate would have collected over seven years if the scheme had not been uncovered, had advised a sentence of nine years. Prosecutors were requesting a sentence of 20 months. Myers, 50, who had pleaded guilty to federal programs bribery in November 2019, was facing federal sentencing guidelines that called for up to two years in prison for his role in steering the food service contract at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. A Pickerington man who participated in a bribery scheme with former Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority member John Raphael over a multi-million-dollar food vendor contract was sentenced Tuesday to six months home confinement, community service and probation for the next four years. ![]()
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