Former St. Louis Alderman Brandon Bosley will go on trial in federal court next week, accused of trying to defraud an insurance company.
Bosley told U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey on Thursday that he was not interested in accepting a deal offered by federal prosecutors to plead guilty to four counts of wire fraud. In exchange, prosecutors would have dropped a fifth false statements charge. They had not offered a deal on sentencing.
The U.S. attorney’s office originally charged Bosley with three counts of wire fraud in 2023 and added the other charges in 2024…