From: WFAE.org | Charlotte NPR
By Tom Bullock
It started with cigarettes and cell phones. It ended when an FBI hostage rescue team freed the father of a Wake County assistant district attorney and with two former North Carolina prison guards facing federal charges. Just how the guards helped make the kidnapping, which took place last year, possible were laid out in federal charges this week.
In 2014, Gregory Gouldman was in charge of the night shift at Polk Correctional Institute. He made just over $32,000 a year according to the state salary database. And Gouldman, prosecutors say, first started adding to that income by sneaking banned cigarettes into the prison and selling them to an inmate in solitary confinement for $50 a pack.
