There is no parole in the federal system.
John Schmidt apologized to his victims in court. "I am sorry, they deserve better," he said. "I will promise whatever time I have left on this earth I will try to make atonement for my sins."
John Schmidt is facing a maximum of 80 years in prison and a $2.5 million fine, as well as more than $300,000 in restitution.
John Schmidt, a former Bullitt County Master Commissioner and county public administrator, “devised a scheme to defraud and obtain money” from two separate trusts between September 2014 and January 2019 to use “for his own personal expenditures, according to the indictment.
Todd and Julie Chrisley were sentenced to a combined 19 years in prison after a jury found them guilty of conspiring to defraud community banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans.
Court documents say the applications resulted in the theft of $133,802.
Kenneth Burgess, 58, is accused of trying to defraud the One Vision Federal Credit Union on Lewis and Clark Parkway in Clarksville.