The disciplinary complaint filed against licensed bondsman Virgil “Lee” Jackson has been postponed again. The Administrative Hearing Commission was originally scheduled to hear the complaint in July and it was then postponed to October 3rd. That date has now been rescheduled to January 9, 2007. The Missouri Department of Insurance (DIFP) filed the complaint last December after Jackson was arrested by federal authorities. According to an article appearing the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the DIFP alleges that Jackson is subject to discipline because of the following violations:
1) He illegally possessed a concealable gun after having been convicted of first-degree robbery in 1984.
2) He conspired to murder bail bondsman Gerald Cox.
3) When he applied for a license as a general bail bondsman in January, he falsely claimed he had not been convicted of a misdemeanor within the past 15 years, when in fact he had been convicted in 2002 of two illegal gambling misdemeanors. (Case number 45R010200414 on casenet.)
4) He had acted as a general bail bond agent when he did not have a license to do so.
According to the P-D article, Jackson’s attorney, Chet Pleban, described the DIFP’s complaint as "political pandering" due to the public attention given to Jackson’s criminal record.
Monday, October 2, 2006
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