Florida Man Sentenced to Five Years of Probation for Failing to Pay Child Support

Contact: Michael J. Conley
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 780-3257

Portland, Maine:  United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jeffrey Kingman, 51, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to five years of probation for failing to pay child support.  He was also ordered to pay $101,387.74 in restitution.  Kingman pled guilty on September 16, 2015.

According to the evidence, Kingman was ordered to pay $216 per week in child support as part of his July 2007 Maine divorce judgment.  Between August 2007 and March 2011, he made 57 reduced and variable child support payments totaling $12,150.  As of October 2012, Kingman owed $60,112 in child support.  From October 2012 through September 2015, Kingman made no child support payments.  To date, Kingman owed $101,387.74 in child support.

The conditions of Kingman’s probation include that he pay restitution and child support.  In pronouncing sentence, Judge Levy observed that Kingman has caused great harm to his children by financially and emotionally abandoning them over a period of years. Judge Levy also observed that Kingman had obtained full-time employment enabling him to make payments through a wage garnishment.  Judge Levy explained that the statutory purposes of criminal punishment include getting defendants to pay restitution and getting parents to pay child support.  If Kingman fails to make restitution or pay child-support while on probation, he faces an additional two years in prison.

The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General and the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Support Enforcement and Recovery.