Former Arkansas State Senator Jon Woods was the first elected official in the state to endorse President Trump in 2016.
Two years later U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks of the Western District of Arkansas sentenced Woods to serve 18 years in federal prison, in addition to three years of supervised release and ordered Woods to pay $1.6 million in restitution.
Yesterday, the lead FBI Agent in his case plead guilty to destroying exculpatory evidence that could have proven Woods’ innocence.
“In a plea deal filed Wednesday, a former FBI agent pleaded guilty to paying a business to “wipe” his computer to make the hard drive unavailable for forensic examination.
According to court documents, former agent Robert Cessario was charged with “corrupt destruction of record in an official proceeding” in connection to the corruption trial of former state Sen. Jon Woods of Springdale.
In the plea deal, Cessario stated: “I erased the contents of the computer hard knowing that the court has ordered that the computer be submitted for a forensic examination. I did so with the intention of making the contents of the computer’s hard unavailable for forensic examination. At the time, I knew that the contents of the hard drive were relevant to an official proceeding, that is, Cause No. 5:17-CR-50010, United States v. Woods et al. I corruptly performed and had performed, the erasures with intent to impair the integrity
No surprise I bet more come forward it was just another poor attempt to bring down the best president we ever had. He stopped more uses of wasting $ than ever done. We were paying other countries for their items shipped here, but they never paid us think of all the years this occured. He followed the $ trails, improved care of our injured soldiers when returning home. Supported our first responders, our Allie’s respected us and our enemies pushed no boundaries. Gas was as low as $1.97 a gallon, parents had a say in the education of our children, he had no long week ends at home & abuse of Air Force One for his personal use. In short he worked and put us first.