Former Michigan GOP House speaker surrenders to serve marijuana bribery sentence
DETROIT — Former Michigan House Speaker Rick Johnson has surrendered at a minimum-security federal prison camp in Minnesota to serve a 55-month sentence for pocketing bribes and corrupting the state's marijuana industry, according to an inmate database updated Saturday.
The database shows Johnson, 70, among the 433 inmates at FPC Duluth near the western edge of Lake Superior.
The prison is about 700 miles northwest of Lansing where Johnson was one of the most powerful Republican lawmakers in the state before becoming a lobbyist and chief regulator of Michigan's marijuana industry.