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ST. LOUIS 鈥� Former Alderman Brandon Bosley, whose family represented a swath of north 果酱视频 for decades, became the latest local politician to be implicated in a sweeping bribery sting after a federal indictment unsealed Monday charged him with three counts of wire fraud.

It鈥檚 the latest political bombshell in a years-long federal probe that has already sent one of the city鈥檚 most powerful and well-known officials to prison. Though Bosley was no longer in office, his family name is among the most well-known in 果酱视频 politics. Bosley, 35, is the son of longtime former Alderman Freeman Bosley Sr. and brother of the city鈥檚 first Black mayor, Freeman Bosley Jr. His sister, LaKeySha Bosley, is a Missouri state representative.

Unlike the three other aldermen who were charged a year ago with accepting bribes from a federal informant in exchange for tax breaks and other favors, the case against Bosley involves a car insurance scheme.

He is accused of inflating the repair bill in an insurance claim for a Toyota Prius. He had purchased the car from a convenience store owner in his ward for $500, well below its nearly $10,000 retail value.

The convenience store owner was a federal informant that helped the FBI bring cases against former Aldermanic President Lewis Reed and former Aldermen Jeffrey Boyd and John Collins-Muhammad. The informant, identified by the newspaper as north 果酱视频 gas station and convenience owner Mohammed Almuttan, offered bribes to the other aldermen in exchange for tax breaks and other City Hall favors.

Almuttan began cooperating with the government after being charged in 2017 for the sale of contraband cigarettes and synthetic drugs. He has appealed his four year prison sentence; a judge has sealed the case from the public.

The informant, identified in the Bosley indictment only as John Doe, owned an auto repair shop in Bridgeton. In February of 2022, Bosley offered the informant a bribe in exchange for helping inflate a repair bill in order to get the Prius, which had been in a collision, totaled by the insurance company so he could obtain a settlement check.

鈥淵ou know, mark that mother(expletive) all the way up, see what it is we can do,鈥� the indictment quotes Bosley telling the informant. 鈥淚鈥檒l throw you a few thousand dollars, and (expletive) that insurance company.鈥�

But a few days later, the informant said the repair bill preparation was a favor.

鈥淵ou don鈥檛 need to give me anything on this one, OK? This is all yours, alright?鈥� the informant is quoted as saying.

Bosley, who had not yet registered the car with the state, then used a false bill of sale to do so in April, according to the indictment, and the insurance company paid him nearly $8,000.

Three months prior, a bill Bosley sponsored lifting a liquor license moratorium in his ward was approved by the Board of Aldermen. It had been 鈥減reviously discussed between Bosley and John Doe relative to John Doe鈥檚 convenience store in Bosley鈥檚 3rd Ward,鈥� the indictment said.

Almuttan owned a Shell gas station on North Florissant Avenue that faced years of complaints from neighbors in Old North 果酱视频, who called it a hot spot for drug dealing and assaults and nicknamed it the 鈥淪hoot 鈥檈m up Shell.鈥� The city late last year closed the station for nuisance violations, though a top 果酱视频 police official indicated to curious neighbors that the city鈥檚 action against the gas station was delayed because of the pending federal investigation.

On Monday, Bosley turned himself in to federal authorities and appeared for an initial hearing where he pleaded not guilty. Judge Patricia L. Cohen released him on a personal recognizance bond.

Bosley and his attorney, Paul Sims, declined to comment after the hearing. Federal prosecutor Hal Goldsmith, who handles public corruption cases in the U.S. Attorney鈥檚 Office, also declined to comment.

Bosley represented his father鈥檚 old ward covering Hyde Park, Jeff-Vander-Lou and other neighborhoods north of downtown from 2017 until this year, when he lost an election to former state Rep. Rasheen Aldridge to represent a larger, redrawn ward.

But he stayed in the news. In February, the Post-Dispatch reported that an FBI investigation included Bosley. A federal search warrant described a $2,000 payment from Almuttan to an unidentified public official鈥檚 assistant in exchange for a support letter for a tax break. The newspaper identified the anonymous public official as Bosley, who in 2020 wrote a letter of support for tax abatement on the Shell gas station, though the tax break was never granted.

Bosley denied ever accepting cash from Almuttan despite the business owner鈥檚 multiple attempts to bribe him.

鈥淚 never took nothing from him, never had any hand-to-hand exchange, nor hand-to-hand with assistants of mine,鈥� Bosley told the newspaper then. 鈥淧eriod, point blank. That鈥檚 a flat-out lie.鈥�

And in December, Bosley was involved in a bizarre incident where he livestreamed a profanity-laden interaction with a woman lying on the street who he said tried to carjack him. In the video, he says he had just been approached by the woman who demanded his keys and threatened to pull a gun on him. He threatens to shoot her if she pulls a gun.

Police arrested the woman on suspicion of first-degree robbery and armed criminal action, and prosecutors charged her. But then police re-interviewed Bosley and prosecutors dropped the charges two weeks later.

KSDK (Channel 5) in February reported that that Bosley had actually struck the woman with his car. Police requested he be charged with filing a false police report, but former Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner .