The former head of a Michigan medical marijuana licensing board has agreed to plead guilty to accepting $110,000 in bribes when he led the panel over a two-year period, authorities said Thursday.
File: House Speaker Rick Johnson, R-LeRoy, right, talks with House Minority Leader Dianne Byrum, D-Onondaga, during a session in the House Chambers, Dec. 16, 2003, in Lansing, Mich.
Johnson, 70, was chairman of the marijuana board for two years until spring 2019. Years earlier, the Republican was also a powerful lawmaker, serving as state House speaker from 2001 through 2004. Johnson accepted $110,200 in cash and benefits from at least two companies while voting in favor of granting them marijuana licenses, according to the bribery charge.
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