Courts

 LOUISVILLE – United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. today announced the 30-year sentence, of an Oldham County, Kentucky, man by Chief District Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., in United States District Court, for aiding and abetting the sex trafficking of a minor. There is no parole in the federal prison system.

 OWENSBORO – A Miami resident from Cuba, was sentenced this week in United States District Court by Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., to 77 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $1,486,164.45 - for conspiracy and theft charges stemming from the defendant’s participation in a warehouse burglary in Leitchfield, Kentucky, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.

 BOWLING GREEN – A substitute teacher, formerly employed by the Bowling Green (Kentucky) School system, was sentenced to ten years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release this week in United States District Court, by United States District Judge Greg N. Stivers for possession and distribution of child pornography, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.

 LOUISVILLE, Ky. – United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. today announced the indictment this week, of former Louisville business owner Lawrence P. Tatem, for willful failure to file federal income tax returns during a four-year period and evasion of payment of taxes, penalties, and assessments totaling $533,498 from a two-year period.