United States v. Thomas Edward Hill and Ike Landrum

Defendants Landrum and Hill were convicted after a jury trial on an eleven-count indictment charging the fraudulent obtaining of funds of an agency which received United States Government financial assistance, all in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 2703 and 18 U.S.C. § 2. Landrum was a job developer for the Mississippi Delta Council for Farm Workers Opportunities, Inc., an agency which received financial assistance under a grant from the U. S. Office of Economic Opportunity. The Mississippi Delta Council had a contract with Cata-phote Corporation of Flowood, Mississippi, to train 20 unskilled…