Month: September 2017

KCKCC alumni baseball game and golf tournament Sept. 29-30

by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC

A golf tournament will kick off Kansas City Kansas Community College’s annual baseball alumni weekend next Friday and Saturday, Sept. 29-30.

An 18-hole scramble, the 2nd Annual Blue Devil baseball fundraising golf tournament will be held at Painted Hills Golf Club Friday at 1 p.m. Registration will begin at 11 a.m. with lunch at 11:30 a.m. and a shotgun start at 1 p.m.

The cost is $100 per player and includes green fees, cart, lunch and a gift bag, Sponsorship opportunities include a hole sponsorship as a Blue Devil sponsor for $550, team sponsor for $400 and hole sponsor for $150. Both the Blue Devil and team sponsorships include four-person teams. Persons may sign up online at [email protected] or by calling 816-587-4545.

The annual Alumni Baseball Game will begin with batting practice at 11 a.m. with the first pitch at 1 p.m. NJCAA Hall of Fame Coach Steve Burleson and more than 50 former Blue Devil players are expected to participate. Any former player planning on attending is requested to contact KCKCC head baseball coach Matt Goldbeck at 913-288-7348 or online at [email protected].

Former IRS employee pleads guilty to false tax returns

Tom Larson, acting U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former IRS employee pleaded guilty in federal court to filing false tax returns.

Carla Lachelle Mitchell, 49, of Kansas City, Kan., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner to the charge contained in a Jan. 13, 2017, federal indictment.

Mitchell worked as a contact representative at the IRS Service Center in Kansas City, Mo., from 2006 to 2015. By pleading guilty, Mitchell admitted that while employed by the IRS she prepared false federal income tax returns for 2011, 2012 and 2013 for 13 of her friends and family, as well as herself.

When preparing tax returns, Mitchell included several false entries (such as fraudulent wages or dependents) to lower the individual tax liability for her friends, family members and herself or to increase their refunds. Mitchell has been linked to 27 fraudulent returns through her admissions, witness statements and IP addresses. The total tax loss for the 27 false and fraudulent income tax returns is approximately $118,012.

Under federal statutes, Mitchell is subject to a sentence of up to three years in federal prison without parole. The maximum statutory sentence is prescribed by Congress and is provided here for informational purposes, as the sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the court based on the advisory sentencing guidelines and other statutory factors. A sentencing hearing will be scheduled after the completion of a presentence investigation by the U.S. Probation Office.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathleen D. Mahoney. It was investigated by IRS-Criminal Investigation.

Colorado man indicted for Manhattan bank robbery

A Colorado man already serving time for a bank robbery in Arkansas was indicted in Topeka on Wednesday on charges he robbed a bank in Manhattan, Kan., U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.

Kenneth Wayne Fisher, Jr., 41, formerly of Colorado Springs, Colo., is charged with one count of bank robbery. The indictment alleges that on Aug. 26, 2015, Fisher robbed Sunflower State Bank at 2710 Anderson Ave. in Manhattan.

A few months after the Manhattan robbery, Fisher was arrested in California. He was extradited to Arkansas to face charges of robbing a bank in Bentonville, Ark., on Aug. 28, 2015. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced earlier this month to more than eight years in federal prison for the Arkansas robbery.

The FBI investigated. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jared Maag is prosecuting.