BECKLEY, West Virginia, May 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on May 3, 2024: After four days of trial, a federal jury convicted Christopher Jason Smyth, 48, of Pineville, on Thursday, May 2, 2024, for failing to pay the taxes withheld from employees' wages at an ambulance service he operated and for obstructing the IRS. According to evidence presented at trial, from 2012 through part of 2017, Smyth operated Stat E  more