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Alaska: Prison Privateer Gets Fine and 6 months jail time

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Weimar gets 6 months in prison, fine By LISA DEMER Published: November 12th,2008 Bill Weimar, who built a lucrative business in Alaska working with criminals, was sentenced to federal prison Wednesday as a convicted felon. Weimar, 68, tall and silver-haired, his voice faltering at times, stood before a federal judge and said he did wrong. He has admitted funneling $20,000 in 2004 to help a state legislative candidate, knowing that if elected the candidate would support his interest in building a private prison. "This is my fault. I did this. Nobody made me do it. I had the means to do it. I went ... and got the cash. I sent it through the mails," Weimar told U.S. District John Sedwick. "I committed a crime." In August, Weimar pleaded guilty to two felonies: conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, and a charge called "structuring financial transactions" for dividing the money into smaller payments, to avoid U...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 16, 2008 (boomark / email).