Former Arkansas Congressman Tommy Robinson, who as Pulaski County sheriff once handcuffed inmates to a fence outside a state prison, was jailed along with his lawyer for contempt of court in his bankruptcy proceeding.
Robinson and his attorney were arrested for criminal and civil contempt because they filed a suit in December with the purpose of thwarting an auction that the judge had ordered of a duck-hunting lodge in which Robinson was once a partner. US Bankruptcy Judge James G Mixon said that the lawsuit, filed the day after the auction was scheduled “was a deliberate attempt” to keep the auction from occurring. According to the judge, the suit represented yet another instance of interference with the Bankruptcy Court’s proceedings.
Robinson had been a partner in a duck-hunting lodge owned by Wildlife Farms II, LLC. Robinson, in his suit alleged that Wildlife Farms committed fraud by secretly entering into an agreement with the US Dept of Agriculture to sell a conservation easement on the lodge and then improperly distributed the $1.7 million in proceeds. Wildlife Farms and its owners filed involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy petitions against Robinson. Robinson was later declared bankrupt in 2005.
Judge Mixon order the gentlemen to be kept in custody until the court determines that both men have “satisfactorily purged themselves of contempt.”
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