Mississippi Business Journal » settlements http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:35:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Coast man gets 12-plus years in prison for fraudulent oil spill claims http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/06/08/coast-man-gets-12-plus-years-in-prison-for-fraudulent-oil-spill-claims/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coast-man-gets-12-plus-years-in-prison-for-fraudulent-oil-spill-claims http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/06/08/coast-man-gets-12-plus-years-in-prison-for-fraudulent-oil-spill-claims/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:50:55 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=58381 GULFPORT ­ A Gulfport man, identified as the mastermind of a family scheme to illegally obtain about $100,000 in oil spill recovery money, has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison. The Sun Herald reports U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden sentenced 50-year-old Bobby Earl Keys to 12½ years in prison for claiming lost [...]

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