Jon Woods REPRepublican

Jonathan Earl Woods, known as Jon Woods (born August 23, 1977, in Charlotte, North Carolina), is a Republican former member of both houses of the Arkansas General Assembly, a record producer, and a musician. He is now in federal prison for political corruption, wire and mail fraud, and money laundering.Woods served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 2007 to 2013 and in the Arkansas Senate from 2013 to 2017. During his legislative career, he sponsored 103 bills that became law, pushed for the establishment of nearly a dozen task forces and commissions, and passed four constitutional amendments. On March 1, 2017, Woods was found guilty of fifteen federal counts for his collusion in a kickback scheme involving Oren Paris, III, the president of Ecclesia College in Springdale, Arkansas, where Woods resides. Others indicted were Randell Shelton, Jr., of Alma in Crawford County, Arkansas, and Micah Neal, a former state representative who pleaded guilty to one act of conspiracy to commit honest services fraud. The trial has been controversial due in part to the actions of the lead FBI agent, Robert Cessario, who pleaded guilty on August 18, 2022, to destroying exculpatory evidence.He is the bass guitarist for the rock band, A Good Fight.