Ted Dibiase, Jr. is finally going to trial in federal court next week on January 6. Once the trial concludes, the dominos will fall as Nancy and Zach New will finally be sentenced for their roles in the DHS scandal.
A federal grand jury indicted Dibiase for conspiracy, wire fraud (6 counts), theft involving programs receiving federal funds (2 counts), and monetary transaction in excess of $10,000 with proceeds of unlawful activity (4 counts) in 2023. Dibiase is the son of former professional wrasslin' star Ted Dibiase.
The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves.
The Justice Department spelled out Dibiase's alleged crimes in a 2023 press release:
According to court documents, Theodore Marvin DiBiase Jr., 40, of Madison, along with co-conspirators John Davis, Christi Webb, Nancy New, and others, are alleged to have fraudulently obtained federal funds – including from The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program – that they misappropriated for their own personal use and benefit.
Davis was the executive director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services (MDHS). As part of the alleged scheme, after federal funds were issued to MDHS, Davis directed MDHS to subgrant the funds to two nonprofit organizations, Family Resource Center of North Mississippi Inc. (FRC) and Mississippi Community Education Center (MCEC), which were operated by Webb and New, respectively. Davis then allegedly directed Webb and New to award sham contracts to various individuals and entities purportedly for the delivery of social services, including at least five sham contracts that were awarded to DiBiase’s companies, Priceless Ventures LLC and Familiae Orientem LLC.
As further alleged in the indictment, under these sham contracts, FRC and MCEC provided millions of dollars in federal funds from MDHS to DiBiase and his companies for social services that DiBiase did not provide and did not intend to provide. DiBiase allegedly used these federal funds to buy a vehicle and a boat, and for the down payment on the purchase of a house, among other expenditures.
Dibiase faces maximum penalties of:
- Conspiracy: 5 years in prison and/or $250,000 fine
- Wire Fraud: 20 years in prison and/or $250,000 fine
- Theft: 5 years in prison and/or $250,000 fine
- Money Laundering: 10 years in prison and/or $250,000 fine.
8 comments:
A potential $1,000,000 in fines for $10,000 is a lousy ROI.
He deserves jail!
Ready for this to be over with. And hope the Feds & State have cleaned up their required oversight & audits of these programs. Interesting that no Federal or State program managers & their bosses have not been fired.
KF:
Have jury selections begun for Lumumba and Owens? Have either offered evidence against the other? Have either dropped a dime on Bennie Tee? How many continuances are they each permitted? Who is the fed prosecutor for their cases? I want harsh, effective justice for the ruination these two have caused in Jackson & Hinds County, with sufficient notoriety to prevent future corruption.
You know very well trial is scheduled for July. Unlike the writers in Suits, the judge can't move up the trial.
Justice delayed is justice denied. So there.
What Feel doing?
These illustrious Mississippians were defrauding the Fed before the Somalis in Minnesota made it cool.
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