ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, December 3, 1995 TAG: 9512040056
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B3 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: RICHMOND
An inmate who authorities say carried on scams while behind bars was released on mandatory parole in the wake of the resignation of the state's Parole Board chairman.
Braxton Lee Bumpers was paroled Friday, said Bill Cimino, a spokesman for Secretary of Public Safety Jerry Kilgore.
It was unclear whether Bumpers would be prosecuted for allegedly using current and former Southampton Correctional Center employees to buy a car, open bank accounts and acquire cellular phones in August 1994 in an apparent check-kiting scheme.
Bumpers was to have been released on mandatory parole Oct. 23, but John Metzger, chairman of the Parole Board at the time, stepped in shortly before that date and postponed Bumpers' parole for as long as six months
- Associated Press
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