Former Gregg County GOP chairman sentenced to a year in federal prison
The former chairman of the Gregg County Republican Party, who served six terms as mayor of White Oak and as a hospital board chairman, has been sentenced to a year in prison for forging his wife’s signature on loan documents.
Timmy Lynn Vaughn pleaded guilty to making false statements to a bank that a federal judge determined got him a loan that he later defaulted on. He will spend 12 months and one day in federal prison and forfeit $145,100 plus proceeds and interest as part of a plea deal.
His federal public defender requested that he be sentenced to the prison in Texarkana, and Judge Jeremy Kernodle agreed to make the request. After Vaughn’s imprisonment, he will face five years of supervised release.
The guilty plea was to one of four counts that a federal grand jury indicted Vaughn on in February. The prosecution agreed to dismiss the other three counts — a second count of false statement to the bank, and two counts of aggravated identity theft.
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