Thursday, December 20, 2012

Plea For USA Harvest Founder Delayed


{Louisville, Kentucky}…Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Dave Whalin rescheduled a change of plea hearing for USA Harvest founder 63 year old Hugh "Stan" Curtis for January 31st. Curtis was charged in September with taking $183,354 from the charity and charging another $370,000 in personal travel expenses. Curtis, who founded the organization in 1989 as Kentucky Harvest of Louisville, faces charges of mail fraud, money laundering and filing false income tax returns. According to the information filed in a Louisville federal court, from September 2005 through September 2007, Curtis failed to report to the Internal Revenue Service about $553,891.67 in personal income he received from USA Harvest.