WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA -On October 14, 2026, SHYENNE WHITE, was charged with Receiving Illegal Gratuity by a Public Official, announced U.S. Attorney David I. Courcelle.

The bill of information alleges that WHITE, while working as a monitor at a residential recovery center for federal inmates, repeatedly and deliberately failed to report an inmate's noncompliance with location monitoring. It is alleged that WHITE accepted about$1,510 in gratuity payments from the inmate. If convicted, WHITE faces a maximum term of imprisonment of two years, which may be followed by up to one year of supervised rel...