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Council approves motion on accepting applicants with felonies

Associated Press — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:57:04 +0000

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 [...]

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Judge rules ex-insurance agent’s conviction, sentence will stand

Associated Press — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:49:51 +0000

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 [...]

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Ex-tax return preparer’s federal court appeal fails

Associated Press — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:31:44 +0000

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 [...]

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Zach Scruggs’ last hope for appeal denied without comment

Associated Press — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:07:30 +0000

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 [...]

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‘Tort King’ to have appeal heard in March

Associated Press — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:39:43 +0000

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 [...]

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Judge grants bond to Scruggs during appeal of bribery conviction

Associated Press — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:53:40 +0000

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 [...]

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Former tax service owner’s conviction upheld

Associated Press — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:51:28 +0000

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 [...]

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Sentencing postponed for three convicted of chemotherapy fraud

Associated Press — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:06:49 +0000

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 [...]

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Man convicted of kickback-bribery asks for freedom during appeal

Associated Press — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:04:39 +0000

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 [...]

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Court upholds conviction of ex-mortgage broker Persac

Associated Press — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 23:22:04 +0000

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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