Denny Hecker

Former Minnesota auto dealer Denny Hecker remains in federal prison and is not in a halfway house as his attorney reported earlier this week.

A former Minnesota auto dealer will be released from a halfway house where he's lived since serving most of a 10-year sentence in federal prison.

Former Minnesota auto dealer Denny Hecker is now scheduled to get out of prison one year earlier than he was previously.

Convicted auto dealer Denny Hecker has been moved to a higher-security prison in Wisconsin.

The former Twin Cities auto magnate convicted of fraud has been moved to solitary confinement at a federal prison in Duluth.

Convicted auto dealer Denny Hecker is about eight weeks into a 10-year sentence for fraud at a federal prison in Duluth and says he's actually happier with his life.

Convicted auto mogul Denny Hecker and his girlfriend have gotten married, but the county attorney's office is investigating whether the marriage is legit. Hecker's daughter Kelly says the family's pastor conducted a ceremony Feb. 22, with Hecker on the telephone from his cell at Sherburne County Jail and girlfriend Christi Rowan at a Maple Grove church.

The girlfriend of convicted auto mogul Dennis Hecker has waived her detention hearing and will remain behind bars. Christi Rowan will stay in the Sherburne County jailed until she's sentenced next week. Rowan's detention hearing was scheduled Wednesday in federal court.

A federal judge has sentenced former Minnesota auto magnate Denny Hecker to a maximum 10 years in prison on fraud charges. He pleaded guilty last September to conspiracy and bankruptcy fraud charges.

One-time auto magnate Denny Hecker is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in a scheme that prosecutors say duped lenders out of millions so Hecker could maintain his "high-flying lifestyle." The 58-year-old Hecker pleaded guilty in September to two fraud-related charges.