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GREENEVILLE, Tenn. â A former Assistant District Attorney for the First Judicial District entered a guilty plea in federal court Monday admitting he solicited a bribe in December 2018 in exchange for dismissing and expunging a woman s criminal charges in Jonesborough.
William E. Bill McManus, Jr., 50, pleaded guilty before the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, Senior United States District Judge, to the solicitation charge.
McManus sentencing was set for Nov. 15.
As part of the filed plea agreement, McManus admitted that, while acting in his capacity as a prosecutor he dismissed and expunged shoplifting and possession of methamphetamine charges pending in Washington County Sessions Court in exchange for a commercial sex act with a woman with whom he had previously engaged in commercial sex acts.