Jackson, TN – On Monday, January 14, 2019, U.S. District Judge S. Thomas Anderson sentenced 42-year-old Brian Black, of Dyersburg, Tennessee to 57 months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for embezzlement.
U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentencing today.
According to information presented in court, Black embezzled at least $178,000 from the trust account of the Oleen H. Fewell Estate. Black was the Chancery Court appointed trustee for the trust, which had been set up by the will of Oleen Fewell for benefit of her daughter, Sharon Connor of Alamo, Tennessee.
Instead of using the trust’s money for the benefit only of Sharon Connor, Black spent a large part of the trust’s funds for his own personal benefit. Among other things, Black wrote over $70,000 in trust checks directly to himself, spent almost $6,000 of trust money to take a vacation trip to Florida to attend the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team fantasy camp, and used over $12,000 of trust money to buy items for his own home in Dyersburg.
By the time United States Postal Inspectors learned of the fraud and began an investigation, Black had spent all of the money in the trust account. Black was the former 911 director for Crockett County
