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Moss Point Mayor Mario King poses for a portrait with his wife, Natasha King, who wraps her arms around his chest as both look directly into the camera in a 2017 photo.
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Ex-Mayor Gets Prison For Using K-12 Mental Health Fundraiser To Buy Car, Purebred

Former Moss Point, Miss., Mayor Mario King will serve 30 months in prison and spend three years on probation, a federal judge in Gulfport decided today. King and his wife, Natasha King, pled guilty to wire- fraud charges in February after a grand jury indicted them last year.

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Ashton Pittman July 22, 2021
Nancy New shakes hands with Phil Bryant while John Davis stands behind them
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Political Donors Took Millions From Public Ed Coffers for Private School, Feds Allege

Two wealthy Mississippi political donors “conspired” to “fraudulently” obtain more than $2 million in public education funds and used it to pay for teachers’ salaries at their private school in Jackson, federal prosecutors allege. 

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Ashton Pittman March 18, 2021

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