(The Associated Press circulated the following article on January 27.)
NEW ROADS, La. — A couple has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from an alleged scheme to overcharge the Union Pacific Railroad for fuel.
Martin Lemoine, 43, and his wife, Veronica Lemoine, 41, entered the pleas Monday in state district court to money laundering, conspiring to commit money laundering and racketeering.
In an indictment issued last week, the couple was accused of padding fuel invoices made payable by the railroad to Morel G. Lemoine Distributors Inc., of which Martin Lemoine is the president and chief executive officer.
The company supplied fuel to Union Pacific in the mid-1990s.
The couple is free on $25,000 bonds.