by Associated Press Published: April 3,2013
Tags: agriculture, bench, Chicken, court, crime, export, exporter, exporting, falsifying records, food, food safety, fraud, international trade, judge, justice, justicve, law, legal, poultry, sentencing
GULFPORT — A plea hearing has been rescheduled for a man indicted in an alleged conspiracy to falsify the temperatures of chicken exported from Mississippi to Russia. The Sun Herald reports U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. set a new plea date of May 20 for Terry White. White is one of three men indicted [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 4,2013
Tags: antique, arson, bench, crime, fire, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, retail, sentence, sentencing, store
ABERDEEN — A sentencing date has been set for a man convicted of participating in the March 2011 arson at Lindley’s Antiques Mall in Oakland. Federal court records say James Flemons and Larry Loftis bought pump sprayers to use in the arson a month before burning the building. Prosecutors said they poured gas and kerosene [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 14,2012
Tags: bench, case, court, crime, criminal, decision, doctor, health, health care, hospital, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, kickback, medical, medicine, physician, ruling, sentence, sentencing, trial
BATESVILLE — A Batesville doctor has been sentenced to home confinement for his role in a medical kickback scheme. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports Dr. Robert Corkern was sentenced to two years’ house confinement and three years’ post-release supervision. Corkern pleaded guilty to bribing a former Panola County administrator to use public funds as [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 12,2012
Tags: bench, decision, intellectual property, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, pirate, pirating, retail, ruling, sale, sell, sentence, sentencing
HAZLEHURST — A Hazlehurt man has been sentenced to serve 15 years in prison for selling pirated DVDs and CDs. Attorney General Jim Hood says 37-year-old Patrick Lashun King was sentenced to 18 years with three years suspended last week. Hood says King pleaded guilty to six counts of selling pirated DVDs and CDs before [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 9,2012
Tags: black market, cigarette, contraband, court, decision, federal government, illegal, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, ruling, sentence, sentencing, tobacco
OXFORD — An Arkansas man has been sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the trafficking of contraband cigarettes. James B. Trosper, of Rogers Ark., pleaded guilty in 2011 to three counts involving the scheme. WTVA-TV reports Trosper was sentenced in federal court in Oxford. Prosecutors said Trosper and others were involved [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 7,2012
Tags: bench, construction, contractor, court, fraud, home, homebuilder, homebuilding, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, repair, sentence, sentencing
CARTHAGE — A Carthage man has been sentenced to five years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to home repair fraud, according to the Attorney General’s Office. Alvin Dennis Hall, 47, pleaded guilty to one felony count of home repair fraud. He was sentenced by Judge William E. Chapman [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 1,2012
Tags: bench, court, crime, criminal, doctor, drug, health, health care, illegal drug, illicit durg, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, medical, medicine, perscription drug, physician, prison, sentence, sentencing
COLUMBUS — A doctor has been sentenced to 13 months in federal prison on three counts of distributing narcotics. Dr. Mark Burtman of Columbus was sentenced in federal court in Oxford. Burtman was charged with illegally distributing prescription painkillers. He pleaded guilty to the three counts on June 28. In addition to the prison time, [...] [...]
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. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 26,2012
Tags: appeal, bench, biofuel, court, energy, fraud, fuel, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, prison, REFINERY, ruling, scam, scheme, sentence, sentencing, sustainable, vacate
NETTLETON — A Mississippi businessman has asked a federal judge to vacate his five-year prison sentence on a conviction of defrauding a biofuels subsidy program. William T. “Tommy” Tacker II was convicted in 2010 on 10 counts that he conspired to defraud the U.S. Department of Agriculture of nearly $3 million for his company, Biodiesel [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 26,2012
Tags: administrator, bench, county government, court, embezzlement, federal government, judge, judicial, judiciary, law, legal, public official, sentence, sentencing, steal, theft
PANOLA COUNTY — A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Nov. 14 for the former administrator of Panola County, who pleaded guilty to a federal embezzlement charge. David Michael Chandler was charged with creating a fake company to fraudulently charge more than $50,000 in county collection fees from 2007 to 2008. He’s also accused of [...] [...]
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