Landon Carter Sexton (born December 28, 1941) is an American politician, and a former Republican member of the

Kentucky Senate The Kentucky Senate is the upper house of the Kentucky General Assembly. The Kentucky Senate is composed of 38 members elected from single-member districts throughout Kentucky, the Commonwealth. There are no term limits for Kentucky senators. T ...

. He lives in

Pine Knot, Kentucky Pine Knot is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 1,380 at the 2020 census, down from 1,621 in 2010. Geography Pine Knot is located in southern McCreary C ...

, United States. On February 16, 1994, Sexton pleaded guilty to accepting a $5,000 cash donation from a Humana lobbyist after the 1990 General Assembly. He was caught taking bribes during a widespread bribery investigation of horseracing by the FBI known as

Operation Boptrot Operation Boptrot, also referred to as Boptrot, was an investigation by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into corruption among the Kentucky General Assembly, the Commonwealth's legislature. The operation was highly successful ...

. He was sentenced to 15 weekends in jail, 2 months' home detention and two years' probation in 1994.

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Living people 1941 births Republican Party Kentucky state senators Place of birth missing (living people) Kentucky politicians convicted of crimes Operation Boptrot 20th-century members of the Kentucky General Assembly {{Kentucky-politician-stub