1/20/2021
Looking fresh and healthy behind his University of Iowa facemask,
Marty Tirrell, who led a complicated life as a boisterous sports-radio host and a glib conman and who was an alcoholic and gambling addict who went from living the large life with the rich and notable to being homeless and penniless, was sentenced to 41 months in prison Wednesday by Federal District Judge
Stephanie
Rose.
He also was ordered to pay more than $1.5 million in restitution to eight victims. He was not fined.
He could have been sentenced to up to 20 years and fined $250,000, but 41 months is at the top of the federal guidelines for the mail fraud he pleaded guilty to. The government had asked for 60 months. He has asked to serve his time in a prison near his boyhood home in Massachusetts.
Good morning!Around the time Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday, former Greenfield resident Marty Tirrell will be standing before the Honorable Stephanie M. Rose of the U.S. District Court for the.
Keeping Score: Trying times for Marty Tirrell
Published: 1/15/2021 6:28:41 PM
Modified: 1/15/2021 6:28:38 PM
Good morning!
Around the time Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday, former Greenfield resident Marty Tirrell will be standing before the Honorable Stephanie M. Rose of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. After several delays and continuances, the 61-year-old Tirrell will be sentenced for one count of mail fraud.
Small potatoes you might think, but Tirrell’s case was pled down from a 10-count indictment to save the court both time and expense.
The Greenfield native used cons to wine and dine on other peoples’ dimes for decades until the FBI caught up with him. “I still walk into stores and people ask, ‘Where’s my Super Bowl tickets?’” said Dan Guin, the general manager at WHAI.
Head of U.S. Attorney s office in Des Moines resigns Philip Joens, Des Moines Register
Marc Krickbaum resigned as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa Thursday.
Born in Omaha, Krickbaum worked in the deputy attorney general s office in Washington D.C., worked as a federal prosecutor twice in Chicago and spent four years in Des Moines before being named to the job.
Krickbaum graduated with a bachelor s degree from the University of Iowa in 2001 and from Harvard Law in 2006. From 2016 to 2017 he served as the assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago.