Lea Fastow Ordered to Report to Prison (Fed Detent., Not Minimum Security)

[Khephra]

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Lea Fastow, the wife of former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, has been ordered to serve her one-year sentence for a misdemeanor tax charge in a downtown Houston federal lock-up, just blocks from the failed company's headquarters.

U.S. District Judge David Hittner ordered Fastow, 42, to surrender by July 12, an order made public on Tuesday said.

The Houston federal detention center is a considerably more restrictive prison than the one her lawyer had requested.

Attorney Mike DeGeurin had asked that Fastow be sent to a minimum security women's federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, 100 miles northwest of Houston. DeGeurin could not immediately be reached for comment.

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5376190

[Gothmog]

1. The Judge has it in for Lea Fastow

Judge Hitner first rejected a couple of different plea deals where Fastow was supposed to get five months that had been signed off on by the Justice department. Then when the plea deal was reworked so that the sentencing guideline would provide for five months, Judge Hitner went with the maximum sentence. Now, a real jail instead of a club fed has been selected.

I hope that this means that Judge Hitner is sending a message that prison time for Enron defendants is going to be meaningful.