A drug felon charged as the co-defendant of two former South Georgia judges in a federal corruption indictment has pleaded guilty to lying to a federal grand jury.

During a plea hearing Jan. 20 before U.S. District Senior Judge Hugh Lawson in Macon, Hayward Collier said that he lied to a federal grand jury when he denied acting as “middle man” between a woman seeking to mitigate her boyfriend’s criminal sentence and Brooks E. Blitch III while Blitch was chief judge of Georgia’s Alapaha Circuit.

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