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When Wren pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor ethics violation on April 1, 2014, he resigned his House seat. The charge stemmed from Wren's ties to a company that employed him as a consultant for $8,000 per month. Wren confessed to having taken legislative action that could have placed administrative control of the [[Medicaid]] program for lower-income persons to the American Pharmaceutical Cooperative, Inc., of Bessemer, Alabama, which had ties to the business for which Wren consulted. Wren's attorney said that the former legislator was unaware of the Medicaid issue at stake. He contended that the misdemeanor violation was unintentional.<ref name=ballotpedia/>  

When Wren pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor ethics violation on April 1, 2014, he resigned his House seat. The charge stemmed from Wren's ties to a company that employed him as a consultant for $8,000 per month. Wren confessed to having taken legislative action that could have placed administrative control of the [[Medicaid]] program for lower-income persons to the American Pharmaceutical Cooperative, Inc., of Bessemer, Alabama, which had ties to the business for which Wren consulted. Wren's attorney said that the former legislator was unaware of the Medicaid issue at stake. He contended that the misdemeanor violation was unintentional.<ref name=ballotpedia/>  

Wren was ordered to pay $24,000 in restitution to the state of Alabama within ninety days and to cooperate with prosecutors investigating corrupt practices in the legislature, including then Speaker [[Mike Hubbard]], who resigned from the legislature because of a felony conviction in June 2014. Even before he resigned from the legislature, Wren had announced that he was not running again in the 2014 election cycle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.al.com/wire/2014/04/alabama_lawmaker_greg_wren_to.html]

Wren was ordered to pay $24,000 in restitution to the state of Alabama within ninety days and to cooperate with prosecutors investigating corrupt practices in the legislature, including then Speaker [[Mike Hubbard]], who resigned from the legislature because of a felony conviction in June 2014. Even before he resigned from the legislature, Wren had announced that he was not running again in the 2014 election cycle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.al.com/wire/2014/04/alabama_lawmaker_greg_wren_to.html  

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|title=Alabama lawmaker Greg Wren takes plea deal, will cooperate with state corruption investigation|author=Kyle Whitmire|date=April 1, 2014|publisher=Blog.al.com|accessdate=November 4, 2017}}</ref>