LITTLE ROCK — A Cabot bookmaker convicted in two separate federal trials last year was sentenced in one of them Thursday to 121 months in prison.
George Wylie Thompson, who was charged after an investigation that also led to convictions of purported mafia street boss Ralph Francis DeLeo and two North Little Rock aldermen, was found guilty in October of charges including conspiracy to traffick cocaine and using a telephone to facilitate a crime.
U.S. District Judge Leon Holmes on Thursday sentenced Thompson to the longest term suggested by the court's advisory sentencing guidelines, though it amounted to only one month more than the 10-year statutory minimum Thompson's charges carried.
Thompson, who also must serve 8 years supervised release, briefly addressed the court, thanking his lawyer and Holmes and expressing some religious sentiment.
"Let god be my judge because he knows what I've done," he said before walking back to the defense table.
DeLeo, who was found guilty of the same cocaine-trafficking charges, was sentenced by Holmes to 12 years in prison earlier Thursday.
Thompson was later found guilty of eight gun, gambling and marriage fraud charges in a December trial with former North Little Rock alderman Sam Baggett. Former North Little Rock alderman Cary Gaines pleaded guilty to a wire-fraud conspiracy charge shortly before that proceeding began.
Gaines, Baggett and Thompson are all awaiting sentencing in those cases.