Trial date set in Tami Sawyer’s federal embezzlement case
Tami Sawyer, right, is accompanied by her attorney, John Keith Perry, left, at the Odell Horton Federal Building on June 30, 2026. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
The trial date is tentative as Sawyer’s attorney is about to get an estimated 50,000 documents used by prosecutors to make their case against her.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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