by Associated Press Published: April 4,2013
Tags: applicant, city council, city government, convict, conviction, crime, employee, felony, job, municipal, municipality, work, worker
COLUMBUS — The Columbus City Council has approved a motion by Councilman Kabir Karriem to stop the city’s practice of disqualifying job applicants with felonies. The Commercial Dispatch reports the proposal also includes forming a committee to establish screening policies that will allow for past incarceration to be considered when reviewing city job applicants, but [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 3,2013
Tags: conviction, court, federal government, insurance, insurance agency, insurance agent, judge, judicial, justice, kickback, law, legal, ruling, scam, scheme, sentence
ECRU — A federal judge has denied arguments from Ecru insurance agent Ken Nowlin that he was given faulty advice by his attorney in a government kickback case. Nowlin was seeking a new trial. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills, in an order filed Monday, denied Nowlin’s motion to [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 28,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, conviction, court, crime, false tax returns, federal court, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, panel, sentence, tax, tax return, tax return preparer
OXFORD — A federal appeals court panel has upheld the conviction of an Oxford tax return preparer for filing dozens of false returns. Thelbert Lamont Lesure was sentenced to three years in prison in 2012 for filing false tax returns. Lesure was indicted on 21 counts. He pleaded guilty one count of knowingly preparing and [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 20,2013
Tags: appeal, attorney, bribe, conviction, crime, judge, judicial bribery, law, law firm, lawyer
OXFORD — The U.S. Supreme Court has denied an appeal from Zach Scruggs, who was implicated as having knowledge of a judicial corruption scheme that toppled his father, plaintiffs’ lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs. The court without comment declined Scruggs’ request to hear his appeal. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 25,2013
Tags: appeal, attorney, bench, bribe, bribery, conviction, court, crime, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawyer
OXFORD — Attorneys for Richard F. “Dickie” Scruggs, a noted plaintiff’s lawyer before being snared in a corruption investigation, will argue his innocence March 4 before a federal appeals court. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans will hear the case. Scruggs, 66, is free on $2-million bond while he appeals a [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 27,2012
Tags: appeal, attorney, bench, bond, bribe, bribery, conviction, court, crime, criminal, decision, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawyer, legal, ruling
OXFORD — A federal judge says former attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs may return home to Oxford on $2 million bond while his attorneys appeal a 2009 bribery conviction. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports Senior District Judge Glen Davidson set the bond yesterday for Scruggs, who has been imprisoned in Montgomery, Ala. Scruggs contends that [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 20,2012
Tags: appeal, bench, conviction, court, crime, criminal, income tax, income tax return, jail, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, penalty, prison, tax, tax filing, tax service
HOLLANDALE — The conviction of the owner of a Mississippi income tax service has been upheld by a federal appeals court. Mary Wesley of Hollandale was convicted in 2011 of filing doctored tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to repay $5.5 million. Wesley was [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 31,2012
Tags: Cancer, chemotherapy, conviction, court, doctor, fraud, health, health care, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, medical, medicine, physician, postponement, public healc, public health, Staff
SUMMIT — A federal judge has rescheduled the sentencing hearing for a doctor and two others convicted in a multimillion-dollar fraud involving watered-down chemotherapy drugs and old needles. Dr. Meera Sachdeva, Brittany McCoskey and Monica Weeks had been scheduled for sentencing Nov. 16 in U.S. District Court in Jackson. That has been pushed back until [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 17,2012
Tags: appeal, bribe, bribery, conviction, court, decision, health, health care, hospital, illegal, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, kickback, law, legal, medical, medicine, ruling, trial
TUPELO — Businessman Ray Shoemaker wants to be free on bail while his federal conviction in a kickback-bribery scheme is on appeal. Shoemaker was sentenced in September to 55 months in federal prison, a $10,000 fine and three years’ post-release supervision on six counts related to a kickback conspiracy. He is scheduled to report to [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 5,2012
Tags: appeal, bank, banking, bench, broker, conviction, court, decision, finance, financial institution, fraud, guilty, home, homebuyer, house, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, mortgage, real estate, residence, residential, ruling, sentence, sentencing
JACKSON — A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of former mortgage broker Michael Persac Persac and former broker Jason Ellis were convicted in 2011. They were both ordered to prison and were ordered to forfeit more than $3 million and pay more than $781,000 in restitution. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. [...] [...]
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