Joey Williams, ex-Dayton city commissioner, gets early release from prison

Joey D. Williams, the former Dayton city commissioner who pleaded guilty to one count of corruptly soliciting a bribe, has been released from prison early, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons public affairs office confirmed Wednesday night.

Williams was sent to a residential reentry facility in Cincinnati from federal prison in Ashland, Kentucky.

He was sentenced last year to a year in prison. His term was to expire on March 16, 2021.

When Williams was sentenced last January by U .S. District Court Judge Thomas M. Rose, Williams’s prison term was to be followed by two years’ supervised release. The first six months of that supervised release were to be home confinement.

Williams was also ordered to pay $28,000 restitution for free home improvements he accepted in exchange for using his influence as a city commissioner in 2015 to help a demolition contractor secure $150,000 in contracts from the city of Dayton and CityWide Development Corp., according to court documents.

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