In 1996, he became Georgia's first African-American Senate Majority Leader.
Walker is a Democrat and is from Augusta, Georgia.
Walker started a newspaper called The Augusta Focus that served Augusta's black community.
Convicted in 2005 by a federal court in Augusta on charges including tax evasion, mail fraud, theft, misusing campaign funds, and conspiracy (127 counts, in all),[1][2][3] Walker was serving a ten-year sentence at a Federal Correctional Institution in Estill, South Carolina.
[6][7][8] Walker filed a petition for habeas corpus in March 2009.