Former Rep. Brooks to be sentenced in November.

Former state Rep. Tyrone Brooks, D-Atlanta, will be sentenced by a federal judge on Nov. 2, after pleading guilty to one count of tax fraud and no contest to five counts of wire and mail fraud in April.

Brooks, who resigned his seat in the Legislature shortly before entering his plea before U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg, originally pleaded not guilty in 2013 to 30 federal charges related to his work with a pair of charities. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Brooks used contributions meant for those charities for his personal expenses.

Brooks, a veteran civil rights worker, was first indicted in 2013.

Despite pleading guilty, Brooks continued to claim the federal government indicted him as revenge for his investigation into the infamous Moore's Ford Lynching, when two black couples were murdered in 1946.

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