Case 1:13-cr-00051-C-BL

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CLEAR DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DIST. OF TX
FILED

# IN IN THE THE UNITED UNITED STATES STATES DISTRICT DISTRICT COURT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS FOR FOR THE THE NORTHERN NORTHERN DISTRICT DISTRICT OF OF TEXAS TEXAS
ABILENE DIVISION

2013 AUG 28 PM 3:05
DEPUTY CLERK <signature>

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
v.
JAMES MCKINNON
§
No.: 1-13CR-051-C
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INFORMATION

The United States Attorney Charges:

Count One
Misprision of a Felony
(18 U.S.C. § 4)

Beginning on or about August 22, 2012, and continuing to on or about August 23, 2012, in the Abilene Division of the Northern District of Texas, in a matter within the jurisdiction of an agency of the United States, the United States Department of Justice, defendant James McKinnon (McKinnon), being a public official, that is, a Correctional Officer, assigned to the Flight Line Unit in the Special Housing Unit (SHU) at the Big Spring Correctional Cbnter (BSCC), a correctional facility under contract with the GEO Group, Inc., under the jurisdiction of an agency of the United States, the United States Department of Justice, did knowingly, willfully, and unlawfully, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, to wit, that Correctional Officers at the Big Spring Correction Facility made, and cause to be made, false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements and representations to the Department of

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Justice as to material facts, by signing and submitting to the Department of Justice, as required by law, the "GEO FLIGHTLINE 12 HOUR SHIFT, 30 MINUTE ROUNDS, Forms, for the time Period 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m., by placing their initials on the Forms representing the Forms to be true and correct and that the 30 MINUTE ROUNDS reflected therein had been performed, when in truth and in fact, as McKinnon then and there well knew, the Forms were not true and correct and were false in that the Correctional Officersihad not conducted the 30 MINUTE ROUNDS, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001, False Statements, a felony, did conceal the same, and did not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States.

A violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 4.

SARAH R. SALDAItIA
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY

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PAULINA M. JACOBO
Assistant United States Attorney
Texas State Bar No.: 10516700
1205 Texas Avenue, Suite 700
Lubbock, Texas 79401
Telephone: 806.472.7351
Facsimile: 806.472.7394
Email: paulina.jacobo@usdoj.gov

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