Tompkinsville News

Posted June 16, 2011 at 1:34 pm

Gary Bartley, 53, of Tompkinsville, received his final sentence after he pled guilty to a charge of conspiring with other co-defendants in the case to pay for and offer to pay for votes in the November 2006 election.

Bartley was sentenced to six months probation, which will be served as home incarceration, as well as a $2,000 fine.

According to the federal indictment, former Monroe County Judge/Executive Wilbur Graves provided money to Bartley, as well as defendants Wanda Moore and Ronald Muse, to pay and offer to pay voters to vote for him and other candidates in the November 2006 general election.

The indictment also states that defendants in the case encouraged voters in the general election to make false statements to the Monroe County Clerk so that defendants Moore, Muse and Bartley could accompany voters into the voting booth and mark their ballots.

Bartley was also accused of paying and offering to pay a voter for voting in the election, but this charge was dropped as part of the plea agreement he entered in February.

Moore and Muse both pled guilty to their charges in December and October 2010, respectively, with Graves being found guilty by a federal jury in March 2011. He will be sentenced in June.

Bartley, Moore, Muse and Graves were among nine defendants indicted by a federal grand jury with sealed indictments released in June 2010.