One of three former St. Louis aldermen in a bribery scheme is set to plead guilty to federal corruption charges.
In a document Friday, an attorney for John Collins-Muhammad told the federal judges overseeing the case that his client and prosecutors had reached a plea deal, and that therefore there 鈥渁re no further issues that the defendant wishes to raise by way of pretrial motion.鈥�
Details of the deal were not released. Collins-Muhammad鈥檚 attorney, Joseph Flees, said a judge would likely hear the plea sometime in August.
One of Muhammad鈥檚 co-defendants, Jeffrey Boyd, he will not raise any issues prior to going to trial. An attorney for Boyd would not clarify whether that meant his client has also reached a plea agreement.
Collins-Muhammad, Boyd and former board President Lewis Reed are accused of accepting cash, cars and other gifts in exchange for helping a developer receive incentives. All three have pleaded not guilty. Reed had not waived pretrial motions as of Friday afternoon.
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