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The men first met with Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin White and his father in January 2010.
They had $1,000 in cash and a desire to win a tow-truck permit and a spot on the list law enforcement uses when it needs a vehicle hauled away. White, who was chairman of the agency that regulates wreckers, said their application should "sail through."
The conversation is one of more than two dozen in which authorities say the Whites shook $8,000 in bribes and a 2003 Lincoln Navigator from three men who sought the commissioner's favor.
Unbeknownst to the Whites, two of those men were working for the federal government, one as an informer, the other as an undercover agent. Their conversations were captured on video and audiotape, said U.S. Attorney Robert O'Neill.
White, a former Tampa police officer, Tampa City Council member and Hillsborough County commissioner, was arrested by FBI agents Wednesday at his new home in Riverview.
In an indictment handed up by a federal grand jury a day earlier, he faces 10 federal felony counts.
They include bribery, conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud and lying to an FBI agent.
Each carries a maximum sentence ranging from five years to 20 years in prison, with the longest possible sentences for the fraud charges. Those counts involve using the mail or other communications to deprive citizens of the "honest services'' they should expect of pubic officials.
It was the first arrest of an elected Hillsborough County official on public corruption charges in more than a decade, harkening to the dark days of county government when three commissioners were convicted of selling votes in the mid 1980s.
Public corruption "should always be a priority of the Justice Department," said O'Neill, who took over as U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Florida in October, when asked if this marked a turn toward more aggressive investigations by his office. "It always has been."
O'Neill said his office is not investigating any other members of the Public Transportation Commission, which regulates cars for hire. He said this investigation is closed.
White, 46, a Democrat, stood before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas B. McCoun III in a rumpled blue shirt, gray slacks and ankle shackles Wednesday. McCoun explained the charges and asked if White understood.
"Yes, sir," White said.
White's mother and his wife, Jennie, entered the courthouse but did not appear during the hearing.
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He also was ordered to turn his multiple firearms over to a friend or relative while the case proceeds, to relinquish his passport and not to leave Central Florida without permission. White did not return a phone call Wednesday evening,
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