ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A former Texas state district judge charged in a judicial corruption case has pleaded guilty in federal court in New Mexico under a plea agreement calling for a two-year prison sentence.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Mexico announced that Angus Kelly McGinty entered the plea Monday in federal court in Albuquerque to a charge of honest services wire fraud.
The 51-year-old McGinty stepped down from Texas’ 144th District Court bench in Bexar County in Feburary 2014 amid an FBI investigation into graft.
McGinty was accused of seeking and taking bribes of cash, car repairs and other favors from an attorney in exchange for favorable rulings for the lawyer’s clients.
The lawyer has pleaded guilty in the case and awaits sentencing.
McGinty is scheduled to be sentenced July 15.
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