June 29, 2020
The founder of the Sleep Number mattress company, who used another of his companies to swindle investors out of more than $57 million, will get out of federal prison 14 years ahead of schedule after a judge found him to be at particularly high risk for COVID-19.
June 19, 2017
The U.S. government has urged a Minnesota federal court not to second-guess the prison time and restitution ordered for an alternative energy company founder convicted of bilking investors out of $57 million, saying the strongest leg of his argument for vacating his sentence is still too weak to stand on.
March 07, 2014
A Minnesota federal jury on Wednesday found an alternative energy company's CEO guilty on criminal counts including mail and wire fraud after federal authorities accused him of lying to investors in a fraud scheme that cost them between $2.5 million and $7 million.