WASHINGTON, June 10 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
GREENEVILLE, TN - On June 10, 2026, George Herman Ruth, 70, of Morristown, was sentenced to 132 months' imprisonment by the Honorable Clifton Corker, United States District Judge, in the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville.
Today's sentence followed Ruth's prior entry of a guilty plea to twenty-five separate counts of mail fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud class action administrators throughout the country. Following Ruth's imprisonment, he will be on federal supervised release for three years.
According to filed court documents and statements made in court, Ruth was previousl...