William Fleiner was recently sentenced to 3 years probation. He was convicted of embezzlement and theft from Homeland Security, the Forest Service and Department of Interior. Federal Judge Sam Haddon handed down the slap on the wrist sentence.
Let’s look at a few of Sam Haddon’s sentences for similar crimes. July 2015 a California woman was sentenced to 56 months in prison for fraud. July 2013 a Billings auto dealer was sentenced to 18 months in prison for fraud. October 2012 a Malta MT man was sentenced to 3 years in prison for fraud. November 2012 a Malta MT bank officer was sentenced to 9 years in prison for embezzlement and fraud. March 2011 a Great Falls woman was sentenced to 57 months in prison for fraud. In August 2013 a California woman, her son and co-defendant were sentenced to 10 years in prison, 6 years in prison and 15 years in prison, respectively, for fraud.
William Fleiner has a long history of political association in Montana. He has been a deputy sheriff and undersheriff in Lewis and Clark County. He was Chief Investigator for Montana Department of Corrections and the former Disaster and Emergency Services coordinator for Broadwater County. While we are watching the clowns through the ponies the Ringleaders are running sideshows the public can’t or won’t see.
Billl Fleiner exhibited the same greed, criminal behavior and justification for that criminal thinking as those that received lengthy prison sentences. Somewhere a Ringleader is running a sideshow, the public is too busy looking at the clowns and we have all missed the implication of this sentence.
Justice has not been served. The clowns were busy covering for the Ringleader.