Federal officials are trying to reduce the prison sentence given to the owner a failed beef plant because he helped them prosecute others in the scheme that cost Mississippi millions of dollars.
U.S. Attorney Jim Greenlee, in a motion filed Friday in federal court in Oxford, asked that Richard N. Hall's eight-year prison term be reduced.
Hall was sentenced in 2007 after admitting his role in the Mississippi Beef Processors LLC debacle, which left taxpayers with a 55 million-dollar debt.
Greenlee said in the motion that Hall gave detailed statements regarding the fraudulent activities of James Draper, a refrigeration company sales representative convicted last month, and the Facility Group of Smyrna, Georgia Three of that company's executive have entered pleas in the case.