Former President of Madison District Public Schools Board of Education Albert Morrison, 62, was sentenced to 45 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to accepting bribes for a local contractor and tax evasion.

A contractor has admitted that he bribed the former Madison Heights school board president, a “longtime friend,” with hundreds of thousands of dollars so his company could get contracts for $3.1 million worth of projects within the district

A Madison Heights school official is accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of bribes from his “longtime friend,” a contractor, in exchange for awarding that man’s company $3.1 million worth of maintenance and construction projects within the district.