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Thu 02 Feb 2007Cork link in Florida bribe scandalA former US county attorney has gone on trial in the Florida Keys accused of using bribes to pay for the Cork holiday home of a local mayor.A federal jury is to hear FBI wire tap conversations of former Monroe County attorney James Hendrick allegedly discussing how he would lie about the payments on the Cork home and urging a Key West mayor to flee to Cork before the FBI closed in.