Activist who faked Utah energy lease bids sentenced to 2 years
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 22:00
in Earth & Climate
Tim DeChristopher is also fined $10,000 for winning bids on 22,000 acres in Utah that he couldn't pay for at a federal energy auction. A Utah man lionized by environmentalists for crashing a 2008 government auction of energy leases near two national parks was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $10,000 on Tuesday.