{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.