Former Rep. Oliver Robinson's sentenced on bribery conviction

It would be two hours before Oliver Robinson (D) finally learned the price he'd pay of his egregious sins--33 months in federal prison, $169,191 in restitution for the government's court costs and forfeiture of another $390,000, followed by three years of supervised release.

For now, he just wanted to finish, well, let's call it a last meal, of sorts. He must report to prison--which prison, it has not yet been determined--no later than 2 p.m. on Tuesday, November 27, 2018.

Our encounter was happenstance. I was at Urban Cookhouse downtown, less than a half-block from the U.S. Courthouse where Robinson would learn his fate from U.S. District Judge Abdul Kallon, sharing lunch with a colleague when the disgraced, former state representative and his two attorneys sat at the adjacent table.

We exchanged pleasantries, and the trio went about preparing for the end of at least one segment of a saga that began 22 months ago when Robinson suddenly resigned his seat in the Alabama state legislature.

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