FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) _ An indicted lobbyist in Arkansas has agreed to be transferred to Missouri, where he faces federal charges of conspiracy and accepting bribes.
The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the indictment was
released Thursday for Milton Russell Cranford of Bentonville.
The indictment says that nonprofit Preferred Family Healthcare in Springfield, paid consultant Donald Andrew Jones nearly $974,000 between 2011 and 2017. Federal prosecutors say either Cranford or his lobbying firms and former state Rep. Eddie Cooper of Melbourne are accused of taking kickbacks from Jones totaling $264,000.
Records show Cranford was arrested Wednesday and is being held at the
Washington County jail. He appeared at a transfer hearing the next day in
Fayetteville and didn’t oppose his transfer to Missouri. No hearing date has been set in Springfield.
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