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TALLAHASSEE - A Florida Lottery district manager was arrested Friday on charges of bribery and unlawful compensation, officials said.
Donnie Hampton, district manager of the Florida Lottery's Jacksonville-Gainesville office, was the subject of an investigation by the Lottery's inspector general and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, according to a release from the lottery department.
He was taken into custody Friday afternoon, said Sheila Griffin, a lottery spokeswoman. Griffin said she had no further details on the case.
The FDLE didn't immediately return a call seeking comment after hours Friday. Hampton could not be reached late Friday.
The arrest came 1 1/2 months after a state investigation found that a former lottery secretary and three other senior management staffers broke an ethics code when they accepted hundreds of dollars in meals and gifts from vendors while doing official business.
That investigation also found that some travel-related documents had been falsified and that another employee was promoted after being investigated for misconduct and conducted personal business during state time.
The Florida Lottery's Personnel Code of Ethics states that no employee can take any gifts, regardless of value, from vendors or retailers.