Robert Simmons Pled Guilty to Kickback Scheme

A Biloxi businessman has pled guilty in a kickback scheme involving the former commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, as well as former Harrison County Supervisor William Martin who died of an apparent suicide when he was scheduled to appear in court of these charges.
Sixty-year-old Robert Simmons is now scheduled to be sentenced in May and faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine in the complicated kickback scheme in which he paid money to former MDOC Commissioner Christopher Epps and former Supervisor William Martin in exchange for lucrative contracts with the state and the county.