He Gots The Hookup

Michael Hooks Jr. is a former Memphis City School board member who pled guilty to embezzlement January 10th of this year. His fake-invoice scandal with the Juvenile Court Clerk's Office spawned the Operation Tennessee Waltz investigation which got several Tennessee state lawmen including 2 others caught up & indicted on bribery charges.

Hooks reported to prison May 15th and by July 16, he was hired by the county Corrections Division as a part-time recruiter for a prisoner re-entry program.

Even though Hooks was released in June from a federal correctional institution in Yazoo City, Miss., he was never a participant in the program which helps inmates restore relationships with their families. Instead he found out about the job and applied, the executive assistant to county Mayor A C Wharton said.

As hard as it is to find employment nowadays THIS cat gets hired not just by the county but the County CORRECTIONS Division exactly 2 fvcking MONTHS and 1 day after he gets out the penile. What the hell he put on HIS resume 'cause we all know what he DIDN'T!

It was reported in a local newspaper that Andrew Taber, director of the Shelby County Division of Corrections, said that Hooks was highly qualified to act as a recruiter for the program.

"(He is) one of several individuals with past criminal offenses currently hired as staff members with the larger re-entry program," Taber said. "It resonates for these incarcerated men to be assisted by staff members who understand intimately the challenges before them."

How in the hell can Hooks understand the challenges that the normal felon faces. This cat was a fvcking school board member who got elected before he was 30 and got locked up on a white collar crime charge of EMBEZZLEMENT for accepting $1,500 in fees back in 2001 for consulting work @ Juvenile Court he did not do.

Shelby County mayor A.C. Wharton said in a statement that the county's re-entry mission even extends to its employees.

"The overall re-entry program is about giving individuals another shot to make good," Wharton said. "That's not only something we've adopted for the mission of this initiative, but even relative to the program's hiring practices."

Hooks' father, also a former county commissioner, was also convicted in the investigation and is serving a 26-month prison sentence for accepting $24,200 in bribes from undercover agents posing as businessmen. You think he he has a job waiting for him too when he gets out. You never know. But for real though, how convicted felons other than Hooks do you think will be offered employment by the county? Not many, I am quite sure of that!