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THE AWARD WINNING OFFICIAL LEGAL NEWSPAPER OF JUNEAU COUNTY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2013
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Mauston Food Pantry gets large donation for holidays
FOOD PANTRY GETS LARGE DONATION This year's Mauston High School Key Club Food Drive was a huge success - no surprises there... except for one rather large donation courtesy of Walmart. Students knew that they would be receiving some pallets of produce from the retail giant but what they didn't know is the four pallets expected grew overwhelming large into 20 pallets. Mauston's FedEx had to be called in to help deliver the pallets and students spent over three hours unloading and stocking the pantry. "This happened on a Friday and we had so much fresh produce that there was no room left in our waiting area," said Kathy Green, Director of the Sharing Pantry. Green went on to say that she made calls to larger families who had already visited the pantry in December to let them know they could come in that Saturday to pick up some fresh produce. This past week the pantry served 137 area families. "We had beans, mangoes, apples, potatoes, broccoli, pears - the list goes on and on," said Green. It will be a happier holiday because of the gifts of others.
Elroy man sentenced for Wire Fraud John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Timothy D. Mueller, 46 of Elroy, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman to 30 months in prison for wire fraud. Mueller pleaded guilty to
this charge on October 3, 2013. Between August 2006 and September 2008, Mueller did business as Advanced Home Tech/Custom Creations and Windesigns, and engaged in a scheme to defraud GE Money Banks and would be customers. As part of the scheme that Mueller headed he ran television commercials advertising free doors to people who agreed to let his company make in home sales presentations for windows. Once in the home, Mueller’s sales representatives convinced people to fill out applications for credit cards, telling
them that the applications were just to determine their qualifications for financing. Mueller then would file the applications and charge the credit cards without authorization or knowledge of the would be customers, even when the customers did not agree to order windows. GE Money Banks covered the loss to the customers of $391,298.75, and Judge Adelman ordered that Mueller pay restitution in that amount to GE. In sentencing Mueller, Judge Adelman noted that the scheme was rather elaborate, involved many potential victims, and that Mueller
was verbally abusive to at least one of the customers that complained. Judge Adelman also considered Mueller’s significant criminal record, which included three convictions for driving under the influence. The charge against Mueller was the result of an investigation conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, and the Eau Claire office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The prosecution of the case has been handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura Przybylinski Finn.
RESCUE AT LAKE Kathy Engelman of Mauston is a mother bursting with pride. This week she announced her son, Alexander Weiland of Mauston, recently received a special Medal of Achievement for his part in a summer rescue at Devils Lake State Park. The medal was presented to him at the Baraboo Armory. Weiland is a former iLead Charter School student and 2013 graduate from the Challenge Academy and Mauston High School. Earlier this year he attended infantry training at Fort Benning, Georgia. Engelman stated that he was first in his platoon for everything and that he has also received an Expert Marksman Medal. Weiland is now a Private First Class and has enrolled in a Criminal Justice program at Western Wisconsin Technical College. "I'm so very proud of him, he is an E3 already in not even a year, " stated Engelman.