After more than eight years in federal prison, 83-year-old Edwin Edwards will be released to a halfway house sometime in January - but no one's saying precisely when that'll be. And now, word that Edwards has been picked to be the Grand Marshal of the Crowley Rice Festival in October of this year.
The four-term former governor's daughter, Anna Edwards, released a statement Monday saying Edwards' family looks forward to his release from the Oakdale prison. She says Edwards will to be assigned to a halfway house for six months, but would only say the transfer would be in January.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons doesn't release transfer dates.
After Edwards' release from the halfway house, The Crowley Post-Signal reports his presence is requested in Crowley for the annual International Rice Festival, October 20-22. Edwards began his political career in the Crowley City Council in 1954.
Anna Edwards says her father won't be speaking to the media while in the halfway house, citing the Bureau of Prisons' rules.
Edwards went to jail in October 2002 for a bribery and extortion scheme to rig the riverboat casino licensing process.
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