Opinion
No. 4:12-cr-164-DPM
04-18-2013
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PLAINTIFF v. DELLA LISSA AMMANN DEFENDANT
CHRISTOPHER R. THYER United States Attorney for the EASTERN Distnct of ARKANSAS KENYEN RAY BROWN United States Attorney for the SOUTHERN Distnct of ALABAMA
ORDER
Amman was indicted in the Eastern District of Arkansas on 11 July 2012. No 1. This Court issued a warrant for her arrest on 19 July 2012. No 3. Amman remained at large; and the Court sent the case to the unassigned docket on 19 October 2012. Ammann was arrested in Mobile, Alabama on 22 October 2012. When her arrest warrant was returned executed on 24 October 2012, the case was reassigned to this Court.
Ammann consented to transfer of her case to the Southern District of Alabama for plea and sentencing under Federal Rule of Procedure 20. Her consent, attached to this Order, was filed in Alabama on 2 November 2012. 1:12-cr-271-WS, No 9 (S.D. Ala.). The consent was inadvertently not filed in the Eastern District of Arkansas. The case has remained open, though inactive, in the Eastern District of Arkansas.
In the circumstances, the Court directs the Clerk to administratively terminate this case, noting that Amman consented to transfer and was sentenced on the indictment in the Southern District of Alabama on 21 February 2013.
So Ordered.
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D.P. Marshall Jr.
United States District Judge
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
V.
DELLA LISSA AMMANN
CRIMINAL NUMBER: 4:12CR00164 DPM
Consent to Transfer of Case for Plea
and Sentence
(Under Rule 20)
I, DELLA LISSA AMMANN, defendant, have been informed that an (indictment, information, complaint)is pending against me in the above designated cause. I wish to plead GUILTY to the offense charged, to consent to the disposition of the case in the SOUTHERN District of ALABAMA in which I, am under arrest,(am under arrest,am held) and to waive trial in the above captioned District.
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(Defendant)
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(Witness)
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(Counsel for Defendants)
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(Assistant Untied States Attorney)
Approved
CHRISTOPHER R. THYER
United States Attorney for the
EASTERN Distnct of
ARKANSAS
KENYEN RAY BROWN
United States Attorney for the
SOUTHERN Distnct of
ALABAMA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
v.
DELLA LISSA AMMANN
NO. 4:12CR00164 DPM
18 U.S.C. § 641
18 U.S.C. § 3571
18 U.S.C. § 3013
INDICTMENT
THE GRAND JURY CHARGES THAT:
COUNT 1
From on or after January 18, 2006, until about March 1, 2008, In the Eastern District of Arkansas,
DELLA LISSA AMMANN
in a matter within the jurisdiction of an agency of the United States, that is, the Department of Veterans Affairs, did knowingly embezzle, steal, purloin, and convert to her own use money and a thing of value of the United States, to wit: Veterans Affairs Dependency and Indemnity benefits authorized pursuant to Title 38, United States Code, Section 1310 et seq. , and paid subsequent to death of the beneficiary, the same being of a value of more than $1,000, to wit: $27,440.00, which money and thing of value was subject to the control and regulations of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, all in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641.