Osceola Man Sentenced to 21 Months for $640912 Wire Fraud
Levelle Joseph Harris of Kissimmee received a 21-month federal prison term and must forfeit $640,911.85 after pleading guilty to wire fraud. The forfeiture returns the full proceeds of the scheme to the government while the sentence triggers standard federal supervised release and restitution enforcement.
usmagazine.comOCALA, Florida — Levelle Joseph Harris, 40, of Kissimmee, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for wire fraud on June 1, 2026.
Senior U.S. District Judge John Antoon II imposed the term in the Middle District of Florida and ordered Harris to forfeit $640,911.85, the exact amount the government states he obtained through the scheme. Harris entered his guilty plea on July 30, 2025.
The forfeiture covers 100 percent of the proceeds identified by federal prosecutors. No additional restitution or fine figures were released in the Department of Justice announcement.
The sentence shifts Harris from pretrial status to immediate incarceration at a Bureau of Prisons facility to be designated. Upon release he will begin a period of supervised release whose length was not detailed in the announcement. The forfeited funds must be transferred to the United States within the timeline set by the court’s judgment.
Downstream, the forfeiture requires the Treasury Department’s asset-forfeiture office to liquidate or hold the recovered assets. Federal probation officers must now prepare post-release supervision and monitor any court-ordered payments. The case also adds one more resolved wire-fraud prosecution to the Middle District of Florida’s docket for fiscal 2026.
This sentencing concludes a prosecution opened after Harris’s July 2025 guilty plea. The Department of Justice has used similar wire-fraud charges and full-proceeds forfeiture in multiple cases targeting individual schemes in Central Florida over the past two years.
U.S. Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe’s office handled the prosecution.
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