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Ex-Minnesota Grain Elevator Manager Gets 8 Years in Swindle
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) -- The former manager of a western Minnesota grain elevator has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for a swindle that cost his employer millions of dollars.
Fifty-six-year-old Jerry Hennessey of Dalton pleaded guilty in February to mail fraud and tax evasion in a 15-year scheme to defraud the Ashby Farmers' Co-Operative Elevator Co. in Ashby, Minnesota.
Prosecutors say Hennessey used the money to pay for exotic hunting trips, real estate, and credit card debt.
Reports say Hennessey concealed the payments as expenses for the co-op. He eventually got a line of credit of about $7 million for the co-op, then used that account to cover more than $5 million that prosecutors say he stole from the company.
Hennessey disappeared for two months before turning himself in in December.
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