by Associated Press Published: June 16,2013
Tags: bench, bookkeeper, court, crime, embezzle, embezzlement, embezzler, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, missing, plea, steal
HAZLEHURST — Linda Gale Reed has pleaded not guilty to three counts of embezzlement. Reed entered the plea Friday in Copiah County Circuit Court in Hazlehurst. Circuit Judge Lamar Pickard denied bail for Reed and set her trial for July 23. The 65-year-old Reed was first reported missing in April 2012 by her daughter after [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 5,2013
Tags: court, elected official, judge, justice, law, lawmaker, legal, letter, plea, poinson, Politicians, Politics, President, public official, ricin, Senator, terror, terrorism, terrorist, trial
TUPELO — A Mississippi man has pleaded not guilty to sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a local judge. James Everett Dutschke of Tupelo had been scheduled for arraignment tomorrow in U.S. District Court in Oxford. His lawyer, George Lucas, waived Dutschke’s right to appear in a court filing yesterday [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 30,2013
Tags: attorney, black market, case, contraband, court, federal government, guilty, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, plea, tobacco, trial
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Florida tobacco distributor long watched by federal investigators has pleaded guilty to money laundering and conspiracy in a scheme to avoid paying taxes owed on online cigarette sales in Kentucky. Pedro “Peter” Bello became the second person to admit to plotting to use phony invoices to avoid paying taxes on millions [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 16,2013
Tags: bank, banker, banking, bench, court, crime, criminal, embezzle, embezzlement, embezzler, executive, fraud, guilt, judge, judicial, law, legal, money, money laundering, plea, sentence, trial
BUDE — A former bank executive has pleaded guilty to bank fraud and money laundering. U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen said Larry Barnette Hill, 58, of Meadville, entered the plea in federal court in Jackson. Hill served as CEO of People’s Bank of the South in Bude. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 2,2013
Tags: case, Chicken, crime, excporter, export, exporting, food, food safety, international market, law, legal, plea, poultry, trial
PASCAGOULA — Court records say a man is expected to plead guilty in an alleged conspiracy to falsify the temperatures of chicken exported from Mississippi to Russia. The April 2012 indictment says Gerald Miller, Patrick McLain and Terry White arranged the export of chicken that did not meet temperature requirements under a trade agreement with [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 29,2013
Tags: arrest, bribe, bribery, chage, city, city governmemnt, contract, court, crime, executive, federal government, judiciary, judiicial, justice, law, legal, mayor, municipal, municipality, plea
VICKSBURG — Mayor Paul Winfield pleaded not guilty yesterday to a federal bribery charge that accuses him of seeking $10,000 in cash in exchange for a city contract. Winfield, wearing a dark suit and red tie, said little during his arraignment in U.S. District Court in Jackson other than to give short answers to the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 21,2013
Tags: bank, banker, banking, bench, court, embezzlement, finance, financial institution, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, plea, teller, theft
PICAYUNE — The former head teller of a Picayune bank has pleaded guilty to participating in the theft of $117,000 from a vault. Vonetta Jordan, of Poplarville, pleaded guilty to bank fraud in U.S. District Court in Gulfport. She will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden on May 23 and faces up to [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 18,2013
Tags: bank, banking, bench, court, crime, embezzle, finance, financial institution, hearing, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, plea, theft, vault
PICAYUNE — A change of plea hearing is scheduled tomorrow for the former head teller of a Picayune bank accused of participating in the theft of $117,000 from a bank vault at Union Planters Bank. Vonetta Jordan, of Poplarville, is charged with bank fraud, conspiracy to commit mail fraud and 12 counts of making false [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 8,2013
Tags: bench, contaminater, court, ecosystem, environment, fasctory, fish, guilty, justice, kill, law, legal, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, mill, paper mill, plant, plea, pollution, wildlife
PEARL RIVER — A company that owned a Bogalusa paper mill has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from an August 2011 spill of pulp byproducts into the Pearl River that killed more than 500,000 fish. Austin, Texas-based Temple Inland faces a maximum fine of $200,000 for its guilty plea to violating the Clean Water Act. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 1,2013
Tags: bank, banker, banking, bench, court, crime, fraud, guilty, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, loan, plea, real estate, residential, subdivision
OXFORD — DeSoto County developer Chuck Roberts has pleaded guilty in federal court to bank fraud charges. The Commercial Appeal reports Roberts entered his plea at a hearing in Oxford yesterday. He pleaded guilty to one count charging him with submitting fake documents and making false statements to an area bank to get money from [...] [...]