Case 1:13-cr-00051-C-BL Document 1 Filed 08/28/13 Page 1 of 2 PagelD 1 ty: !STA:CT COURT • VST. OF TX IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT Ti FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS IUS 2'd pp, 05 ABILENE DIVISION DEPUTY CLERK _14_ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JAMES MCKINNON No. INFORMATION The United States Attorney Charges: 1-13CR- 051-C 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 Information (James mainison)- Page I EFTA00027134 Case 1:13-cr-00051-C-BL Document 1 Filed 08/28/13 Page 2 of 2 PagelD 2 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 Information (James Maarten) - Page 2 EFTA00027135