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DRUG TREATMENT CENTER EMPLOYEE PLEADS TO PUBLIC
CORRUPTION FELONY OFFENSE
THURSDAY, November 6, 2008 -
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Amanda Winter, 22, of Lansing, Michigan, entered a guilty
plea to a felony indictment which charged her with public corruption, U.S. Attorney Donald A.
Davis announced today.
Ms. Winter was indicted by a federal grand jury on October 15, 2008, following an investigation conducted by the Lansing, Michigan office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The indictment alleges that Ms. Winter was an employee of Insight Recovery Center of Lansing, Michigan, a private drug treatment and testing facility. The Insight Recovery Center had a contract with the United States Probation Office to provide urine sample collection services from federal defendants and convicted felons who were under the federal court’s supervision. While acting on behalf of the federal agency, Ms. Winter admitted at her plea hearing that she agreed to ignore “positive” preliminary urine sample test results, to allow positive urine samples to be disposed of without being sent to a laboratory for testing and to fail to record positive urine sample results in a mandatory testing log. Ms. Winter was paid in cash and marijuana by the federal defendants and convicted felons who were providing the required urine samples. Ms. Winter admitted that her conduct undermined the federal court’s efforts to rehabilitate offenders and to protect the public.
Ms. Winter faces a maximum criminal penalty of fifteen years imprisonment, a term of supervised release of three years, a fine of $250,000 and a mandatory special assessment of $100.
U.S. Attorney Davis commended FBI Special Agent Christina Kleinpaste and Resident Agent in Charge Rodney Charles for their work in the case. This case was prosecuted on behalf of the United States of America by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael A. MacDonald.
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