Renzi Co-Defendant Sandlin Gets Three Year Prison Sentence In Texas Case

In Sherman, Texas on Tuesday, US District Judge Richard Schell sentenced James Sandlin of Sherman to three years in prison in a bank fraud case. A jury convicted Sandlin in June on two counts of submitting a false statement to a federally insured financial institution (earlier); the indictment charged that he failed to disclose a $996,000 debt on financial statements he submitted to a Sherman bank (DOJ, AP).

Sandlin is former business associate of US Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) and was indicted with Renzi in February in a different case (earlier).