EVANSVILLE — Regene Newman, the former Vanderburgh County prosecutor’s aide at the center of Courier & Press reporting on questionable expenditures by a nonprofit for at-risk youth, has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to wire fraud.
The offense is punishable by a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, according to court papers filed in the case. Newman is set to be sentenced on July 31 before U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young in Evansville’s federal courthouse.
Newman left then-Prosecutor Nick Hermann’s office in 2021, having been hired away from her job as finance director for the prosecutor’s office by Judge Wayne Trockman to serve as business director of community corrections. Newman was fired from that job in 2023 , with Trockman saying Courier & Press reporting had eroded the agency’s confidence in Newman…