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A failed effort to fake past military service to get a lenient federal sentence

By Douglas A. Berman

This local article from Vermont, which is headlined "Phony military records surface in Burlington drug sentencing" reports on a remarkable federal sentencing proceeding from earlier this week.  Here are the details: Leniency in sentencing was denied Monday to a Burlington man convicted of dealing marijuana after federal prosecutors determined he had invented a Vietnam-era Marine Corps career to deceive his probation officer. Chief U.S. District Judge William Sessions III called claims made by Kimball Manning, 64, outrageous and incredible before sentencing him to 4 1/2 years in prison. Manning and his wife, Heather Wick Manning, 39, both of whom were indicted in June for trafficking drugs and pleaded guilty in February, were arrested again in March and accused of selling multiple pounds of marijuana while awaiting sentencing for the first offense, Sessions said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 12, 2010 (boomark / email).