Category: Public Corruption
Justin Harvey, Bribery, Florida 2026
⏱ 2 min read Justin Harvey, a 50-year-old former correctional officer at the Citrus County Detention Facility in Florida, pleaded guilty to accepting a $4,000 bribe to smuggle a cellphone into the jail. Harvey, from Inverness, worked at the facility where federal inmates are held while awaiting trial or sentencing. He agreed to bring the…
Omar R. Pouncy, Suborning Perjury, Michigan 2026
⏱ 2 min read Omar R. Pouncy, a 39-year-old from Flint, Michigan, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for suborning perjury. On July 14, 2026, U.S. District Court Judge F. Kay Behm imposed the sentence after Pouncy pleaded guilty to the charge. The case stems from Pouncy’s attempts to overturn his convictions…
John Kosmowski, Bribery and Obstruction of Justice, Illinois 2025
⏱ 2 min read John Kosmowski, the former police chief of suburban Chicago’s village of Summit, has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for his role in a bribery scheme. In 2017, Kosmowski and a building inspector, William Mundy, accepted $10,000 from local businessman Krzysztof Hodurek to facilitate the transfer of a liquor…
Mark Snedden, Kickback Scheme, Pennsylvania 2023
⏱ 2 min read A contractor and its owner have agreed to pay $7.2 million to resolve civil claims over a kickback scheme involving an Amtrak official and a renovation contract for Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station. Mark 1 Restoration Company and its owner, Mark Snedden, paid an Amtrak employee overseeing the project over $323,000 in…
Carlos Todd, Escape from Halfway House, North Carolina 2025
⏱ 2 min read Carlos Todd, a 31-year-old Raleigh man, made a brazen escape from the South Raleigh Residential Reentry Center, a halfway house, on July 30, 2025. Todd had been serving the final part of his prior prison sentence at the facility, which is designed to help inmates transition back into society. However, after…
Joshua Firmin, Assault, Louisiana 2024
⏱ 2 min read Joshua Firmin, a 49-year-old former Deputy US Marshal, was sentenced to 45 months in prison for assaulting a federal inmate in a Louisiana courthouse on February 29, 2024. The incident occurred while the inmate was shackled, and Firmin later wrote a false report about the incident. The assault was a clear…
Daniel Irving, Escape from Federal Custody, New Hampshire 2025
⏱ 2 min read Daniel Irving, a 35-year-old convicted felon, pleaded guilty to escaping federal custody after he fled a Manchester halfway house in October 2025. Irving, who was serving a federal sentence, removed his electronic GPS monitoring device and absconded, prompting a search by the US Marshals. He was later found at a home…
John Harold Rogers, False Statements, Washington 2022
⏱ 2 min read John Harold Rogers, a 64-year-old former senior adviser to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, was sentenced to 38 months in federal prison for sharing restricted Federal Reserve information with Chinese intelligence operatives and lying to federal investigators in Washington DC. The crime occurred over several years, with Rogers secretly funneling…
Paul Jessen Jr., Obstruction of Justice, New Mexico 2023
⏱ 2 min read A Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Deputy, Paul Jessen Jr., 36, was convicted on July 10 of obstructing Drug Enforcement Administration investigations and making false statements to the FBI in New Mexico. Jessen, who was a detective with the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office, compromised DEA operations by providing confidential information to a known…
Kyle James Loudner, Embezzlement, South Dakota 2026
⏱ 2 min read Kyle James Loudner, 40, and Talyn Ashley Douville, 34, of Pukwana, South Dakota, were sentenced to federal prison for embezzling $160,000 from the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe. The theft occurred between May 27, 2022, and July 2, 2024, when Loudner, an elected official, and Douville, a tribal employee, drew nearly 100…
