Thursday, November 18, 2010
Former West Virginia Lottery Inspector Admitts She Lied To FBI
WEST VIRGINIA....
Former West Virginia Lottery Commission inspector, 55 year old Carolyn A. Kitchen of Chapmanville, has admitted that she lied to investigators with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service when they questioned her about her involvement with Joe C. Ferrell in February 2008. Kitchen says she lied when they asked her if she took money from Ferrell, a longtime Logan County delegate who owned Southern Amusement Co., a company that provided video lottery machines to bars and other venues. Ferrell, who pleaded guilty to racketeering and tax fraud charges last month, said he helped Kitchen, whom he had known since she was a teenager, get her job with the Lottery Commission, knowing that she would bend the rules for the machines owned by his company. Kitchen faces up to five years in prison when sentenced February 23rd.