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New Orleans Man Pleads Guilty to Misprision of Felony

U.S. Attorney’s Office January 08, 2009
  • Eastern District of Louisiana (504) 680-3000

NEW ORLEANS, LA—CHARLES C. HENRY, age 55 and a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty in federal court today before U.S. District Court Judge Lance M. Africk to a one count Superseding Bill of Information charging him with misprision of a felony, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten

According to court documents, HENRY had been a co-defendant along with Randolph Polk, Jr. in an indictment to which Polk pled guilty on November 20, 2008. Upon HENRY’s guilty plea today to the Superseding Bill of Information, the counts relating to HENRY in the original indictment were dismissed.

According to the factual basis, beginning in 1995, Randolph Polk, Jr. conspired with others to defraud an insurer by fraudulently inflating Polk’s 1992, 1993, and 1994 U.S. Income Tax Returns in connection with a civil lawsuit for personal injuries filed in Orleans Parish. HENRY, who was aware of Polk’s scheme to defraud, did not report the felony crime to any lawful authorities. As a result of the fraudulent returns, Polk later received a substantial award for lost wages and loss of future earnings against the insurer.

HENRY faces a maximum term of imprisonment of three (3) years and a fine of up to $250,000, as well as a one year term of supervised release. He is scheduled to be sentenced on April 9, 2009.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Carter K. D. Guice, Jr. and Edward J. Rivera.

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