Former Prosecutor Sentenced To Prison Time
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Former prosecutor TJ Hively of Batesville is being sentenced to three years in prison for racketeering and mail fraud convictions. Hively was sentenced by US District Judge George Howard Junior. Howard declared a $464,000 judgment... an amount equal to what he was accused of diverting from a child support program. Hively was sentenced to five years each on five counts... one racketeering charge and four mail fraud charges. The sentences are to run concurrently, each with two years suspended. Hively was prosecutor from 1993 to 1998 for the 16th Judicial District, which covers Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard and
Stone counties. He was accused of using his office to pressure people into turning over personal assets. His former law partner, Wesley John "Butch" Ketz, was
convicted of racketeering and mail fraud. Ketz is to be sentenced tomorrow.
