Hinds County Circuit Judge Faye Peterson wants to send the News to the house - as in house arrest. Yup. Judge Peterson said at a status hearing this morning she was considering sentencing Nancy New and her son Zach to serve their bribery and fraud sentences under house arrest. WLBT reported:
A Hinds County judge says she plans to sentence Nancy and Zachary New to house arrest while they await federal sentencing in connection with the state’s largest welfare fraud case. The judge was frustrated that the mother and son have waited more than four years to be sentenced.
Nancy and Zachary New appeared before Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Faye Peterson on Tuesday morning for a status hearing.
They entered their guilty pleas on the state charges in April 2022. The two stole and illegally funneled $4.5 million in federal welfare funds through their nonprofit....
Peterson plans to ask the Mississippi Department of Corrections whether the mother and son can be placed on house arrest.
Once she hears back, she said she plans to set a sentencing date in the next few weeks.
The state sentence would be house arrest.
U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves will hold a status conference on November 4.“I think that I could do that, and then whatever sentence comes out of the federal system would be consecutive to that, but the way they’re dragging their heels, I don’t know when that’s going to be,” said Judge Peterson. “I could have certainly have done that initially anyway and still wound up with the same result, and they can move on with the next phase of their life, and not on my docket.”...
Hinds County Assistant District Attorney Jamie McBride said the U.S. Attorney’s Office emailed him that the pair could be sentenced on their federal charges as early as the week of November 16 of this year.
Luke Whitaker, who represents Zachary New, said a federal sentence could come as early as January. Rest of article
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