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This Hero Didn’t Stand a Chance - Tim DeChristopher is scheduled to be sentenced-Chris Hedges Columns

source: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/this_hero_didnt_stand_a_chance_20110620/

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Tim DeChristopher is scheduled to be sentenced in a Salt Lake City courtroom by U.S. District Judge Dee Benson on July 26. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $750,000 fine for fraudulently bidding in December 2008 on parcels of land, including areas around eastern Utah’s national parks, which were being sold off by the Bush administration to the oil and natural gas industry. As Bidder No. 70, he drove up the prices of some of the bids and won more than a dozen other parcels for $1.8 million. The government is asking Judge Benson to send DeChristopher to prison for four and a half years.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/this_hero_didnt_stand_a_chance_20110620/
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1 comment // This Hero Didn’t Stand a Chance - Tim DeChristopher is scheduled to be sentenced-Chris Hedges Columns

  • toreyray
    • +1
      toreyray  

    • I am happy that there are people in the world like Tim DeChristopher that will stand up to Big Oil / Big Brother (they are the same thing now a days)

      what a shame!

    • 1 year ago
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