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Northern District of Texas

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FORMER LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYEE SENTENCED
TO 41 MONTHS IMPRISONMENT ON MAIL FRAUD AND TAX EVASION CHARGES

United States Attorney Jane J. Boyle announced today that Demeshia Rachel Davis was sentenced yesterday by the Honorable United States District Judge David C. Godbey to 41 months imprisonment and ordered to pay $1,776,137.92 in restitution to Lucent Technologies, Inc. Davis, age 29, of Dallas, Texas, pled guilty in January to a two-count Information that charged her with mail fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1341, and tax evasion, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7201. Judge Godbey ordered that she report to the Bureau of Prisons on April 24, 2003.

According to documents filed in Court, from August 1998 until June 2002, Demeshia Rachel Davis, and her boyfriend, Anthony Jackson, executed a scheme to defraud Lucent Technologies using the U.S. Mail. Davis was an employee at Lucent and made up fake companies and invoices that caused Lucent to pay the fake invoices. Jackson assisted by establishing a mail box to receive the fraudulent checks. In 2000, Davis earned approximately $322,648.00 from the scheme, although in total, as much as $1.7 may have been stolen during her scheme.

When Davis filed her federal tax return for 2000, she willfully failed to report this income. She admitted that she purposely evaded paying federal income taxes to the government and she knew that she owed far more tax than she reported.

In December 2002, Anthony Jackson pled guilty to one count of mail fraud stemming from his involvement in the scheme. He was sentenced to 33 months imprisonment and ordered to pay $1,776,137.92 in restitution. He is scheduled to report to the Bureau of Prisons on April 8, 2003.

United States Attorney Boyle commended the investigative work of the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Dallas Field Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as the cooperative efforts of Lucent Technologies' officials. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Michael Snipes.

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