United States Attorney Joseph S. Van Bokkelen
                  Northern District of Indiana
                                
   E. Ross Adair Federal Building & United States Courthouse
             1300 South Harrison Street, Room 3128
                   Fort Wayne, IN 46802-3489
                                
                                
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                        CONTACT: Mary L. Hatton
August 10, 2006                                        PHONE: (219) 937-5603
                                             Fax: (219) 852-2770


                 UNITED STATES ATTORNEY CHARGES

Fort Wayne, IN The United States Attorney's Office announced that a Grand Jury sitting
in Fort Wayne, Indiana, returned the following Indictments on July 25, 2006:

Tommy E. Blair, age 49, Paul W. Blair, age 47 and Christina L. Langel, a/k/a Christina L.
Blair, age 23, all of Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Tommy Blair was charged with six counts of Wire Fraud
and four counts of Mail Fraud and Aiding and Abetting involving  knowingly and willfully devising
and intending to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud and for obtaining money from an insurance
company by means of false and fraudulent pretenses and representations from on or about October
2004 to April 2005.  Paul W. Blair was charged with four counts, and Christina Langel, a/k/a
Christina L. Blair was charged with one count, of Wire Fraud and Aiding and Abetting in connection
with the same scheme and artifice.  These charges were filed as the result of an investigation by the
United States Postal Service.  This case has been assigned to and will be prosecuted by Assistant 
United States Attorney Lovita Morris King, who can be reached at 260-422-2595 for any inquiries.

Timothy W. Farmer, age 52, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was charged with three counts of
unlawfully and willfully opening any letter or mail entrusted to him or which came into his
possession intended to be conveyed by mail or carried or delivered by any carrier or other employee
of the Postal Service or delivered from any post office or station thereof established by authority of
the Postmaster General or the Postal Service Delay and unlawfully and willfully embezzle, steal,
abstract or remove any article or thing contained in a letter which had been entrusted to him or which
came into his possession intended to be conveyed by mail or carried or delivered by any carrier or
other employee of the Postal Service or delivered from any post office or station thereof established
by authority of the Postmaster General or the Postal Service on July 11, 2006.  These charges were
filed as the result of an investigation by the United States Postal Service.  This case has been
assigned to and will be prosecuted by Assistant  United States Attorney Tina L. Nommay, who can
be reached at 260-422-2595 for any inquiries.

The specific sentence in each case to be imposed upon conviction will be determined by the
judge after a consideration of federal sentencing statutes and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. 
The United States Attorney's Office emphasized that an Indictment is merely an allegation
and that all persons charged are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in court.  

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