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Johnson Forfeits Millions of Dollars and House Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 09 February 2010 01:45 pm

A federal judge has ordered former Alabama two-year college Chancellor Roy Johnson to forfeit $18.2 million in cash and a $1.3 million home.

Johnson, who is scheduled to be sentenced later this month by U.S. District Judge Karon Bowdre, faces more than 25 years in prison and more than $2 million in fines. The forfeiture order issued Monday allows the government to seize the home Johnson built in Opelika.

Prosecutors are expected to ask for a lighter prison term for Johnson because of his cooperation in public corruption cases.

Johnson, once the government's key target in its federal criminal investigation of the two-year college system, turned into the key witness as prosecutors looked into jobs and payments to legislators and relatives of state school board members.

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