{"id":533801,"date":"2016-09-09T13:15:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T18:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=533801"},"modified":"2016-09-11T05:06:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T10:06:50","slug":"ex-official-with-northeast-texas-group-guilty-in-theft-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=533801","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Official with Northeast Texas Group Guilty in Theft Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/09\/dept-justice-seal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/09\/dept-justice-seal.jpg\" alt=\"dept-justice-seal\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-533802\" \/><\/a>TEXARKANA (AP) &#8211; An ex-financial director for a Northeast Texas group dedicated to helping needy people has pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal $1.2 million in federal funds.   Cynthia Hillard Campbell of Mount Pleasant remains free on bond pending sentencing in Texarkana.   Campbell on Wednesday pleaded guilty, in a plea deal, to conspiracy to commit an offense against or to defraud the U.S. government. She faces up to five years in prison.<!--more-->   <\/p>\n<p>Campbell was comptroller for Mount Vernon-based Northeast Texas Opportunities. The agency served Red River, Titus, Lamar, Franklin, Morris, Rains, Hopkins and Delta counties.   Eleven people associated with the now-defunct group were indicted in February. Prosecutors allege the suspects, since 2011, wrote checks on agency accounts, shared the cash or spent the money on personal items.   Campbell&#8217;s co-defendants await trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXARKANA (AP) &#8211; An ex-financial director for a Northeast Texas group dedicated to helping needy people has pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal $1.2 million in federal funds. Cynthia Hillard Campbell of Mount Pleasant remains free on bond pending sentencing in Texarkana. Campbell on Wednesday pleaded guilty, in a plea deal, to conspiracy to commit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=533801\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ex-Official with Northeast Texas Group Guilty in Theft Case<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":533802,"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-533801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 01:05:04","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\/533801","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=533801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533803,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533801\/revisions\/533803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/533802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}