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Lynn Bapp Tempel, the finance manager of a construction company, pleaded guilty in federal court in Great Falls

Former executives of the Montana Native Women’s Coalition sentenced for stealing grant funds MTN News and last updated 2021-07-02 16:47:33-04 GREAT FALLS — Two former officials with the Montana Native Women’s Coalition were sentenced to probationary terms and ordered to pay restitution after both admitted stealing federal grant funds for unapproved spending, including travel to Las Vegas, Nevada, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said in a news release on Thursday. Sheryl Lynn Lawrence of Colstrip, 45 years old, who was the Coalition’s executive director, was sentenced ...

Former MT Native Women’s Coalition executives sentenced for stealing grant funds MTN News and last updated 2021-07-02 18:31:52-04 GREAT FALLS — Two former officials with the Montana Native Women’s Coalition were sentenced to probationary terms and ordered to pay restitution after both admitted stealing federal grant funds for unapproved spending, including travel to Las Vegas, Nevada, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said in a news release on Thursday. Sheryl Lynn Lawrence of Colstrip, 45 years old, who was the Coalition’s executive director, was sentenced in federal c...

Great Falls businessman sentenced for employment tax fraud MTN NEWS and last updated 2021-06-25 22:19:20-04 GREAT FALLS — Thomas O’Connell was sentenced in federal court in Great Falls on Thursday for employment tax fraud, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said in a news release. O’Connell owned and operated three plumbing businesses: Quality Plumbing and Heating, Orbit Plumbing and Heating, and Orbit PHC. From at least 2005 through 2016, O’Connell caused trust fund taxes to be withheld from employees’ wages and then did not pay employment taxes for several quarters....

MT woman sentenced on charges of meth trafficking and having a gun MTN NEWS and last updated 2021-02-01 16:46:01-05 GREAT FALLS — A woman who admitted trafficking methamphetamine after law enforcement found five pounds of the drug and a gun in her vehicle, was sentenced in federal court in Great Falls on January 28. Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said in a news release that Opal Inez Cox, 40, pleaded guilty on Oct. 6, 2020, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute meth and to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The prosecution said in court d...