TYLER — A 56-year-old Athens man pleaded guilty to federal violations in a Tyler courtroom Friday. Mark Eugene Thomas faces up to 20 years in federal prison for mail fraud. According to information presented in court, from 1998 to 2009, Thomas was employed by Argon Medical Devices, Inc. in Athens. From 2004 to 2008, Thomas provided fraudulent data to appear more profitable in order to secure additional capital investments. The fraud resulted in a financial loss of between $1 million and $2.5 million. A sentencing date has not been set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER — A 56-year-old Athens man pleaded guilty to federal violations in a Tyler courtroom Friday. Mark Eugene Thomas faces up to 20 years in federal prison for mail fraud. According to information presented in court, from 1998 to 2009, Thomas was employed by Argon Medical Devices, Inc. in Athens. From 2004 to 2008, Thomas … Continue reading Henderson County Man Guilty of Mail Fraud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 13:09:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171003,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170684\/revisions\/171003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}