The sentencing for the former chancellor of Alabama’s two-year college system, who pleaded guilty to 15 federal charges last year, has been delayed again.
Roy W. Johnson was scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 20 in U.S. District Court in Birmingham. However, during a status hearing Thursday, District Judge Karon O. Bowdre agreed with a motion for continuance, filed recently by assistant U.S. attorney Miles Hart.
Johnson, who served as president of Southern Union State Community College before serving as system chancellor, will be sentenced at 2 p.m. Feb. 24.
In March 2008, he pleaded guilty to 15 federal charges of bribery, conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit money laundering and witness tampering. The charges stem from actions Johnson took while he was chancellor from 2002 to 2006. He was fired from the post in 2006, amid allegations of nepotism and corruption.
Several other former two-year college employees and their associates have been indicted and sentenced in the past year as part of the investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama.
Among them was Joanne Jordan, who served nearly four years as interim president at Southern Union after Johnson left the job. Bowdre sentenced Jordan in August to three years of probation for one count of obstruction of justice.
The charge stems from false testimony Jordan gave to a federal grand jury.
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