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Jury: Michigan Rep. Larry Inman didn't lie to FBI, hung on 2 other charges

Colleagues in the Michigan Legislature asked earlier this year that he resign, but Inman declined.

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In a Friday, June 12, 2015 photo, Michigan State Representative Larry Inman, seen here in his Traverse City, Mich, area home. Inman has been charged with seeking a bribe from a labor union in exchange for favorable votes on a wage issue after investigators obtained text messages that said campaign cash would be needed to overcome pressure from Republican leaders. Republican Rep. Larry Inman was indicted Tuesday, May 14, 2019 on charges of attempted extortion, soliciting a bribe and lying to the FBI. (Jan-Michael Stump/Traverse City Record-Eagle via AP)

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A federal jury in western Michigan has cleared a Republican state lawmaker of lying to federal authorities but was hung on two other charges against him.

The Detroit News reports jurors Tuesday found Rep. Larry Inman not guilty of lying to the FBI but could not reach a verdict on charges of attempted extortion and soliciting a bribe.

Inman, from Williamsburg in the Traverse City area, had been accused of urging union officials in 2018 to round up $30,000 in campaign contributions per legislator to protect a law setting higher wages on state-financed construction projects.

Colleagues in the Michigan Legislature asked earlier this year that he resign, but Inman declined.

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