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 IUS 2'd pp, 05 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS 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