The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced that 30-year old Mark A. Lewis of Swansea, pled guilty in the federal district court in East Saint Louis to the charge that he stole unemployment benefits from the United States Railroad Retirement Board.  Court proceedings revealed that from January 2013 through May 2013, Lewis fraudulently obtained monies belonging to the Railroad Retirement Board, an agency of the United States, by concealing his employment status in order to receive unemployment benefits.  He is scheduled for sentencing on March 20, 2014, when he faces maximum penalties of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and up to 3 years of supervised release.