SIOUX CITYâA former general manager of a Sioux Center grain cooperative who directed subordinate managers to blend oats into soybeans has been sentenced to three months in a federal prison.
Seventy-six-year-old Kenneth Lloyd Ehrp of Dakota Dunes, SD, received the prison sentence Wednesday, March 24, in Sioux City from U.S. District Chief Judge Leonard Strand.
In addition to the imprisonment, Ehrp was fined $50,000 and ordered to pay $4,089.73 in costs of prosecution.
Ehrp also must serve a one-year term of supervised release after his prison sentence. There is no parole in the federal system.
He received his prison sentence after pleading guilty on Nov. 2 to one count of conspiracy to commit a prohibited grain practice.