{"id":44811,"date":"2023-09-27T01:26:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T05:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=44811"},"modified":"2023-09-26T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T23:30:07","slug":"former-master-commissioner-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2023\/09\/27\/former-master-commissioner-pleads-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Master Commissioner Pleads Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"42885\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2023\/05\/03\/former-bullitt-county-official-arrested\/john-schmidt\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/John-Schmidt.webp?fit=889%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"889,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"John Schmidt\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/John-Schmidt.webp?fit=889%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/John-Schmidt.webp?resize=125%2C125\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-42885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/John-Schmidt.webp?resize=125%2C125&amp;ssl=1 125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/John-Schmidt.webp?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/John-Schmidt.webp?zoom=2&amp;resize=125%2C125 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/John-Schmidt.webp?zoom=3&amp;resize=125%2C125 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><br \/>\nFormer Bullitt County Master Commissioner pled guilty in federal court to one count of wire fraud and two counts of bank fraud on Tuesday.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>John Schmidt was initially arrested back in May after he was indicted by a federal grand jury. According to the indictment, between September 2014 and January 2019, Schmidt schemed to defraud and take money from the two trusts he was serving as a trustee for, using it for his own personal expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt faces a maximum of 80 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt is expected back in court for sentencing January 4, 2024.<br \/>\nSource: WAVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bullitt County Master Commissioner pled guilty in federal court to one count of wire fraud and two counts of bank fraud on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":42885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-archive","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-bEL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/John-Schmidt.webp?fit=889%2C500&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44812,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44811\/revisions\/44812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}