__Maybe.__ [Official FBI Press Release](https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/louisville/press-releases/2010/lo032510.htm) of the convictions in 2010, there were eight defendants in total. From the [Lexington Herald Leader](http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article44083767.html): > In one of those cases, vote-buyer Bobby Red Sams testified that [William Bart Morris], who was working for a different candidate than Sams, beat him up in a dispute over a woman who had sold her vote. Morris was one of the defendants in the Federal [RICO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act) case. My interpretation of the claim hinges on Mr. Sams testiomony, which is why my conclusion is "maybe". I could not find any charges against a Bobby Red Sams for perjury. [Here](http://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/13a0179p-06.pdf) is a link to an appellate court's ruling to vacate all of the defendants convications in 2013, and another article from the [Lexington Herald Leader](http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article44434632.html) describing it. Nothing in either source discounts Mr. Sams' testimony directly. I haven't yet seen anything in any of the sources that mentions the cost of the vote, which to me seems to be a pretty small amount to be paid for breaking a federal law.