Suzanne Savoie....................Sarah Kendall Tankersley
Posted on 05/31/2007 9:58:36 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
EUGENE, Ore. - A federal judge sentenced two women to prison Thursday for their roles in arson fires around the West that caused more than $40 million in damage over a five-year period.
Suzanne Savoie and Kendall Tankersley were the fifth and sixth of 10 radical environmentalists to be sentenced in U.S. District Court in Eugene after they pleaded guilty to arson and conspiracy. All were members of an underground cell of the Earth Liberation Front known as "The Family."
U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Savoie to four years and three months in federal prison. In order to recognize Savoie's cooperation with investigators, Aiken imposed a sentence that was eight months less than that proposed in a plea bargain. Aiken also noted that Savoie left the conspiracy in 2001 and has committed no crimes since then.
Savoie was convicted of participating in two 2001 arsons, at a lumber company and a tree farm.
Tankersley's three-year, 10-month sentence is five months less than she agreed to when she pleaded guilty to an arson at a U.S. Forest Industry office in 1998. Aiken said the less severe sentence was because Tankersley left the conspiracy immediately after the arson and cooperated fully when arrested.
Environmentally friendly - a scorched earth policy. Brilliant!
$40 million in damage and she gets 4 years in prison (she’ll probably do 1 1/2). Big deal. That’s not justice, it should have been 30.
These prison sentences are mere puffery compared to what the wacko’s want to do to people who disagree with THEM. These people deserve 15 - 20 years each. BUT, they were tried and sentenced in oregon, small “O” very intentional.
My thinking exactly.
I went to the Eugene newspaper link you posted earlier and man oh man, was that a cast of mangy looking characters.
From what I could glean from the story, these geniuses were all relatively affluent and educated.
Look for these two to appear on future Presidential pardon lists, if the shebeast is elected.
Those are NOT women!
Ah jeeez......... those pics are enough to make my eyes burn.
Yes, they are definitely a group of real losers even though most are educated. I guess it proves out the saying about some being educated beyond their intelligence.
Just curious - how do inmates fancy the ELF folks?
Kendall Tankersley (left) with her partner H.E. Martel at an
International AIDS Candlelight Memorial in Tuscon.
Pardoned lists heck...they will be made personal assistants or handmaidens.....
My thinking exactly.
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And then she -- and the rest of Earth First -- will consider her jail sentence a martyr's crown.
I knew it! I’ve seen them before. Those guys play for the Dodgers!
radical environmentalist?
My 76 year old neighbor who composts is a radical environmentalist. these are TERRIOSIST!
“Those are NOT women!”
New Age, unisex types for sure ........but women by birth.
I’m tellin’ ya, those guys are utility infielders for the Dodgers.
LOL! They might be now but they wouldn’t be if Lasorda was still the manager.
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