Greg Wren, president of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators, was automatically deposed last week when he resigned as a member of the Alabama House as part of a plea deal with state prosecutors.
Wren, R-Montgomery, resigned his legislative seat April 1, the same day he agreed to plead guilty in state court in Montgomery to a misdemeanor charge of using his office for personal gain. He agreed to pay $24,000 restitution, within 90 days, and to cooperate in a continuing investigation of corruption.
According to charging documents, Wren's problems stemmed from a state probe into his attempts to add language to the state General Fund budget late last year that would have effectively made a pharmacy cooperative, the Bessemer-based American Pharmaceutical Cooperative Inc., the sole supplier of drugs for Medicaid patients in Alabama.
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