Two former Missouri-based non-profit executives pleaded guilty Thursday to their roles in a multimillion-dollar public scheme that involved embezzlement and bribing Arkansas elected officials, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Bontiea Bernedette Goss, 63, and her husband, Tommy Ray Goss, 66, received favorable legislative and official actions in return for bribes and kickbacks they, and other co-conspirators, offered and paid to elected officials in Arkansas over many years.
Federal prosecutors said one of the schemes involved elected officials directing funds from the state’s General Improvement Fund to their charity, Preferred Family Healthcare Inc., which provided services to people in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Illinois….