{"id":233696,"date":"2013-01-09T16:12:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T22:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=233696"},"modified":"2013-01-10T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T21:50:15","slug":"smith-county-man-sentenced-for-wire-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=233696","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Man Sentenced for Wire Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=233828\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-233828\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/01\/Federal-Courthouse-E.jpg\" alt=\"Federal Courthouse-E\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-233828\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; A Tyler man has been sentenced to federal prison for stealing money from investors. James Henry Hardee, 42, pleaded guilty last October to wire fraud. He was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis. A restitution hearing will be held at a later date. <\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, in 2005, Hardee approached various people to invest in the Tyler-based ETRG investments for the purpose of opening and operating a group of Zaxby\u2019s fast food chicken restaurants in Arkansas. A group of nine people invested the $465,000.<\/p>\n<p>Hardee pleaded guilty to taking the money to spend on personal mortgage and vehicle payments, court documents stated. He invested no money but contributed his labor to the company and agreed to act as managing member of ETRG. Hardee received 25 percent interest in the company, the court documents stated. <\/p>\n<p>It was part of the scheme that Hardee used ETRG funds in place of his scheduled compensation amount and in excess of the compensation amount he was supposed to receive for his salary, according to the court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Hardee then sent falsified financial statements through email to ETRG investors \u201cto conceal his unlawful taking of ETRG funds in lieu of his scheduled compensation in lieu of his scheduled compensation, but in excess of his scheduled compensation amount,\u201d court documents stated. <\/p>\n<p>The fraud occurred between December 2005 and December 2008. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A Tyler man has been sentenced to federal prison for stealing money from investors. James Henry Hardee, 42, pleaded guilty last October to wire fraud. He was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis. A restitution hearing will be held at a later date. According &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=233696\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Man Sentenced for Wire 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-233696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 23:01:24","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\/233696","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=233696"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233942,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233696\/revisions\/233942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}