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FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
ABILENE DIVISION DEPUTY CLERK _14_
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
v. No. 1-13CR- 051-C
JAMES MCKINNON
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
PAULINA M. JO,COBO
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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