United States of America v. Paul D. McCown

Case summary

United States v. Paul D. McCown is a wire fraud case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming, No. 1:22-cr-00023, before Judge Scott W. Skavdahl. The hosted filings recount that McCown pled guilty in March of 2022 to seven counts of wire fraud involving over $15 million, was sentenced on July 8, 2022 to 63 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, began supervision on March 21, 2025 and had paid almost $14,000,000 in restitution with $1,670,456.20 outstanding. The five filings in the archive, all from 2026, concern his supervision: the order of August 24, 2026 (Entry 69) denying his motions for early termination of supervised release and for appointment of counsel, which finds that he used a falsified resume to become chief of staff at a company and was let go after two weeks; the government's motion of the same date (Entry 70) to modify his conditions to require notice to prospective employers; a defense motion of September 8, 2026 (Entry 74) to hold the modification hearing set for October 1, 2026 by video teleconference; the order of September 9, 2026 (Entry 76) granting it; and McCown's response of September 11, 2026 (Entry 77) asking the court to deny the modification. The hosted docket shows no filing after Entry 77 and the modification hearing set for October 1, 2026.