Charles Walker (Georgia politician)

For other people named Charles Walker, see Charles Walker (disambiguation).

Charles W. Walker, Sr. (born November 8, 1947) was a Georgia State Senator.

Biography

Charles Walker was first elected to the State Senate in 1990, and in 1996 he became the first African-American State Senate Majority leader in Georgia history. Walker is a Democrat and is from Augusta, Georgia.

Walker owned a myriad of small enterprises under the name The Walker Group. One of Walker's first ventures was a convenience store called "Reklaw's", which is Walker spelled backwards.

Walker started a newspaper called The Augusta Focus that served Augusta's black community. It often expressed opposing viewpoints to Augusta's only daily newspaper, The Augusta Chronicle.

Walker is currently serving a ten year sentence in the minimum security facility at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Estill, South Carolina. He was convicted on 127 counts, including tax evasion, mail fraud and conspiracy by a federal court in Augusta. His projected release date from federal prison is September 26, 2014.^[1]

His appeal was rejected on July 6, 2007.^[2]

Walker filed a petition for habeas corpus in March 2009. The federal judge who presided over his trial recused himself from presiding over Walker's petition in May 2009.^[3]

References

1. ^ "Inmate Locator - Locate Federal inmates from 1982 to present". Federal Bureau of Prisons. http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&FirstName=Charles&Middle=W.&LastName=Walker&Race=B&Sex=M&Age=62&x=44&y=17. 
2. ^ U.S. v. Walker (11th Cir. 2007).
3. ^ "Walker judge recuses himself". The Augusta Chronicle. May 20, 2009. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/latest/lat_519318.shtml. 

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