Chalmette Man Pleads Guilty To Conveying False Information
| U.S. Attorney’s Office May 21, 2009 |
NEW ORLEANS, LA—NICHOLAS SCHUMAKER, age 25, a resident of Chalmette, Louisiana, pled guilty in federal court yesterday before U. S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt to two counts of maliciously conveying false information, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten.
According to factual basis, SCHUMAKER worked as a security contractor at a Travelodge Hotel in Kenner, Louisiana. SCHUMAKER admitted that on two separate occasions, he placed an object that appeared to be a pipe bomb near a building belonging to the hotel, and then reported the false bomb threats to the hotel manager and law enforcement authorities.
SCHUMAKER faces a possible maximum term of imprisonment of ten (10) years, a fine of $250,000.00 and three (3) years of supervised release following any term of imprisonment as to each count. Sentencing is scheduled for September 9, 2009, at 9:00 a.m.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Greg Kennedy.