Okemah Man Pleads Guilty To False Statement

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Steven Paul Buie, age 57, of Okemah, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to False Statement Or Fraud To Obtain Federal Employees’ Compensation, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1920, punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine or both. 

The Information alleged that beginning in or about September 2015 and continuing through May 2017, within the Eastern District of Oklahoma and elsewhere, the defendant, knowingly and with intent to defraud, did willfully falsify, conceal and cover up a material fact, to-wit: his true medical condition and that he was physically capable to perform work, such concealed fact caused the payment of federal employees compensation in excess of $1,000.00.  

The charges arose from an investigation by the Department of the Army U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers. 

The Honorable Kimberly E. West, U.S. Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, in Muskogee, accepted the plea and ordered the completion of a presentence investigation report. 

Assistant United States Attorney Christopher Wilson represented the United States.