TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A grand jury charged former Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom with perjury Wednesday in an indictment related to $6 million Sansom steered to Northwest Florida State College for an aircraft hangar.
Also indicted was Sansom's friend and political supporter Jay Odom, who was charged with official misconduct.
Odom had sought and failed to get government money for the hangar. Sansom later stuck an appropriation in the 2007-2008 state budget for the project.
Sansom stepped down as speaker in January, a little more than two months after taking the office. In addition to the hanger, Sansom steered millions more to the school when he chaired the House Budget and Policy Council. He then accepted a $110,000 job at the school on the same day he formally became speaker.
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