3 months ago
KSDK -- A Stockton, California man pleaded guilty to defrauding a federal inmate in southern Illinois.
33-year-old Michael Ussery, Jr. pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud and three counts of mail fraud.
The indictment alleged that Ussery, a former federal inmate himself, conspired with others to defraud a current federal inmate in southern Illinois. Ussery told the inmate that he could get him a sentence reduction.
Ussery represented himself as a Drug Enforcement Administration informant, who, along with an alleged DEA Special Agent, could get sentence reductions for federal inmates who funded DEA undercover operations.
In exchange for those proposed services, the inmate gave Ussery $36,500. Inmates are not allowed to purchase reductions of sentences.
Ussery was also able to obtain additional information from the inmate and had $145,000 removed from the inmate's bank account.
Ussery faces 20 years in prison for the mail and wire fraud counts.
For his conspiracy charge, Ussery faces five years in prison.
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