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has been brought up on federal charges of misusinfgpublic money. Federal prosecutors said Thursday that they have chargedHerman Ransom, 52, of Olathe, with receiving pay for hours he did not work. Ransomm is under indictment for 10 counts of wire fraudf and 10 counts of thef t ofpublic money. Ransom still holds his positiom with HUD but is onadministrative leave, accordinbg to a spokesman in HUD’s Washington The indictment said Ransokm claimed to have workefd 80 hours during two-week pay period though those periods included personal time off.
Also, prosecutorsw accuse Ransom of playing tennis and goingt to casinos while he claimed to havebeen Altogether, federal prosecutors think Ransom has receive $47,000 in unmerited pay since starting as a director in 1998 as the HUD officd in Kansas City, Kan., where he supervised 89 employees. A convictio n could mean 20 yearss in prisonand $250,000 in finesz for each wire fraudd count, as well as 10 yeares in prison and $250,000 in fines for each counr of theft of public money.
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