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FORMER FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL OFFICER SENTENCED ON BRIBERY CHARGE
February 26, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton, Teresa Gulotta-Powers, Special Agent in Charge in the Miami
Office, Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General, and Bruce Pearson, Warden for the
Federal Correctional Complex at Yazoo City, Mississippi, announced that VICTOR DEAN, a former
Federal Correctional Officer at the Federal Correctional Complex at Yazoo City, Mississippi, was
sentenced today to serve 25 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, stemming
from a federal bribery charge occurring at the Yazoo Federal Correctional Complex. He was also
ordered to pay a fine in the amount of $1500.
In April 2007, Dean agreed to bring in tobacco, which is a prohibited object in federal prison,
to a federal inmate at the Yazoo Federal Correctional Complex, in return for the inmate sending
payment to a person designated by Dean. Once Dean brought in the contraband, consisting of five
cartons of cigarettes, the Defendant had $1,000 transferred via Western Union to Dean’s designee.
Shortly after being confronted on these charges, Dean admitted to the criminal violations and
resigned from the Yazoo Federal Correctional Complex.
Dean was indicted on September 12, 2007, by a federal grand jury for corruptly receiving,
accepting, and agreeing to receive and accept bribes from a federal inmate, in violation of Title 18,
United States Code, Section 201(b)(2)(C). He pled guilty to the bribery charge on December 11,
2007, before United States District Judge David Bramlette.
U.S. Attorney Lampton commended the investigative efforts of the Special Agents of the
Office of Inspector General, Department of Justice, and the Investigative Agents with the Bureau of
Prisons at the Federal Correctional Complex in Yazoo City, Mississippi. The case was prosecuted by
Assistant United States Attorney Mike Hurst.
