RICHMOND — A federal prosecutor said Monday that a former Virginia legislator bribed Old Dominion University officials into giving him a job because he was strapped for cash. Former Del. Phillip A. Hamilton’s attorney, however, told jurors that his client only used bad judgment in taking a job as director of a teacher training center that he helped create by securing $500,000 in state funding. Hamilton was vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in 2007 when he successfully introduced legislation providing money to create the center at ODU. Hamilton later was hired to run the center and was paid $80,000 over two years. — AP
