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U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans declared that KENYA BUTLER-SMALL had been sentenced on January 5, 2023, for a demeanor alleged to have happened while she was working for Amtrak as an On-board Services Train Attendant. U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance mandated that BUTLER-SMALL serve concurrent six-month prison sentences for the two wire count charges to which she had pled guilty. Furthermore, Judge Vance ordered two years' supervised release after completion of her incarceration, with the initial six months consisting of home confinement and location monitoring; along with a $200 special assessment fee. Lastly, restitution was ordered for the victims. BUTLER-SMALL...

ANDRICE VANEC SAINVIL, 20, of Margate, Florida, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today to two years in prison for his role in a Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security ("CARES") Act fraud scheme. According to an indictment filed in September 2021, Sainvil conspired with others to steal the identities of dozens of Oklahomans, use their victims’ names and social security numbers to apply for fraudulent Unemployment Insurance ("UI") benefits with the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission ("OESC"), and cause OESC to mail prepaid debit cards containing those fraudulently obtained UI benefits to addresses to which the coconspirators had access throughout the...

Barbara Chalmers, 74, of Lewisville, Texas woman pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of Texas for a scheme to embezzle at least $29 million from her employer – a charitable foundation and several other companies run by a Dallas family. Chalmers admitted that starting in at least 2012, she abused her position as bookkeeper for the family’s companies and her signatory authority over the companies’ bank accounts to fraudulently write herself at least 175 checks, which she deposited into her personal accounts. In order to conceal her fraudulent conduct, she provided false paperwork to tax preparers misstating the year-end...