Wyoming News Briefs

Gillette woman, former CCH consultant, ordered to prison and $172K restitution

GILLETTE (WNE) — A Gillette woman and former Campbell County Health public relations consultant, Alexa Kinney, was sentenced to nearly three years in prison and ordered to pay restitution for federal charges related to defrauding multiple victims and making false claims to the Internal Revenue Service.

She was sentenced Thursday in Casper before U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson.

Kinney was arrested in October on charges related to fraudulent investment opportunities, unauthorized use of a credit card and mak...