CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A former Williamson mayor will spend three years on probation for lying to federal investigators.
Darrin McCormick, 50, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Charleston Thursday afternoon after pleading guilty in May to making a false statement to the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service during an investigation focused on Aracoma Contracting.
McCormick was a former manager at the Bank of Mingo’s Williamson branch where officials with Aracoma Contracting structured their withdrawals to evade federal reporting requirements, keep much of the company’s payroll off the books and bribe a workers’ compensation auditor.
The company itself has since plead guilty to a list of charges.
McCormick resigned from his role as mayor in Williamson in April shortly before he was named in a federal information filing, indicating his cooperation with federal investigators on the false statement charge.