Chris Temple On Line

Tuesday -- December 21, 2010

NEWS FLASH: Feds seek to lock up Chris Temple -- again.

            Having already previously served over five years in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (despite the fact that his court-determined maximum sentencing Guideline range was only 18 months) Chris Temple of Spooner, Wisconsin faces jail time anew.

            The U.S. Attorney's office in Madison, Wisconsin -- based on allegations by Temple's federal Probation Officer  -- now seeks to revoke his current term of supervised release.  This despite the fact that, as Temple is separately arguing, a number of factors actually argue under the law for his term of supervised release to be terminated.  Not the least of those factors is that he has already served several times his lawful sentence based on his 2004 pleas of guilty to one count each of mail fraud and money laundering.

            Temple -- Editor and Publisher of The National Investor newsletter -- has, despite the strictures of his supervised release, been making progress in, most importantly, paying restitution to the victims of his crimes; many of whom are good friends and support him. 

            It is widely known in both the legal profession and some public policy circles that the federal government's track record on recovering money for victims of white collar crime is disgraceful.  Generally -- as it has done also with Temple in the past and seeks to do yet again -- the feds' response is all punitive.  Most perpetrators leave prison with virtually no assets or income left, and get menial jobs that do not allow them to pay their just debts.  It is incredible that -- when, of all things, the government has in Chris Temple a repentant man with both the ability and willingness to make good on his debts -- it now seeks to stop him.

            More information on this case can be found at www.christempleonline.com.