309 Year sentence for White Collar Criminal
The leader of a massive white collar crime syndicate was sentenced to a 309 year sentence in federal court this week. Bribary, Fraud and Identity theft were among the crimes he was convicted of.
United States Attorney’s Office
Middle District of Louisiana
February 17, 2010
BATON ROUGE—U.S. Attorney David R. Dugas announced today that Chief U.S. District Judge Ralph E. Tyson sentenced Robert Thompson, also known as John Lawson, age 43, of Zachary, La., to a term of 309 years in prison. Thompson, the leader of a massive identity theft and bribery scheme, was sentenced based on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, computer fraud, access device fraud, aggravated identity theft, money laundering, and obstruction of justice. This is the longest sentence of any white collar offender in the history of the Middle District of Louisiana.
To facilitate the scheme, among other things, Thompson bribed a corrections officer at Elyan Hunt Correctional Center $10,000 to provide Thompson with cell phones while an inmate at the facility.Read more at neworleans.fbi.gov
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