Ron Sailor (born Walter Ron Sailor Jr.; ), also known as Walter Ronnie Sailor Jr., is a former State Representative in the

Georgia General Assembly The Georgia General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is bicameral, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each of the General Assembly's 236 members serve two-year terms and are directl ...

from the 93 District. He represented parts of DeKalb and Rockdale counties from 2001 to 2006. Sailor resigned his office in March 2008 after pleading guilty to charges of

money laundering Money laundering is the process of illegally concealing the origin of money obtained from illicit activities (often known as dirty money) such as drug trafficking, sex work, terrorism, corruption, and embezzlement, and converting the funds i ...

and attempted laundering of what he believed were proceeds from the sale of

cocaine Cocaine is a tropane alkaloid and central nervous system stimulant, derived primarily from the leaves of two South American coca plants, ''Erythroxylum coca'' and ''Erythroxylum novogranatense, E. novogranatense'', which are cultivated a ...

, but what was actually a government sting operation. He received a sentence of five years imprisonment. Sailor then tried to cover the crime by laundering $250,000 through false loans using as collateral property belonging to the Greater New Light Missionary Baptist Church of which he was the

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. He was sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison. Sailor Jr. is the son of the late African-American television and radio broadcast journalist, Walter Ron Sailor Sr.

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