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McClatchy Washington Bureau
McClatchy Washington Bureau
Politics
William Douglas

Mike Espy was acquitted 20 years ago, but the old charges haunt his Senate candidacy

JACKSON, Miss. _ Mike Espy has a framed courtroom sketch artist's rendering from his 1998 federal corruption trial prominently hanging on a wall in his law office, a keepsake from the lowest point in his political career.

"It's to remind me how terrible a time it was," said Espy, now a Democratic candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from Mississippi. "It was the worst moment in my life."

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