Not too long ago, Ray Norris was Clarke County’s top law enforcement officer. Now he’s a convicted felon.
to a federally insured institution. The maximum penalty is 30 years in prison, but his actual punishment likely will be substantially less under advisory sentencing guidelines. Federal prosecutors have agreed to recommend leniency in sentencing.
Norris admitted that he and business partner Danny Lee Beard Jr. applied for a $75,000 commercial loan from Town Country National Bank in Camden in November 2019. The purported purpose of that loan was to purchase heavy equipment that would be rented to road crews and other construction companies. But Norris admitted that he used $25,000 from the loan to make payments on previous personal loans that the same bank had made to Norris and his wife.
Defense attorney Gordon Armstrong said a factor in his client’s decision to plead guilty is that the bank president has passed away. “The bank knew what he was doing with it,” he said. “He’d done business with this bank for a long time, knew the banker, knew the president of the bank and got a little careless with some of the paperwork. But it’s all been paid back. So it’s really a victimless crime at this point.”“That’s certainly a question, unfortunately, we can’t ask because the banker, unfortunately, is deceased now,” he said.
Armstrong said his client remains friends with Beard but no longer is in business with him. Beard, of Gulf Shores, is scheduled to go on trial next month. His attorney, Dennis Knizley, previouslyArmstrong said he does not expect Norris to testify against Beard.Norris resigned from office last year amid allegations of wrongdoing unrelated to the bank loan.
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