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Woman gets 6 years in prison for damaging pipeline
The Associated Press ^ | September 22, 2022 | By DAVID PITT

Posted on 09/22/2022 5:50:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge sentenced an Arizona woman on Thursday to six years in prison for using a cutting torch to damage the Dakota Access pipeline in Iowa and setting fire to pipeline equipment in three counties in 2016 and 2017.

The judge also ordered Ruby Katherine Montoya, 32, to pay nearly $3.2 million in restitution together with Jessica Reznicek, a woman who helped her.

Montoya pleaded guilty to conspiracy to damage an energy facility. She admitted to helping Reznicek and others damage the pipeline in several locations in Iowa.

“The sentence imposed today demonstrates that any crime of domestic terrorism will be aggressively investigated and prosecuted by the federal government,” U.S. Attorney Richard D. Westphal said in a statement. He said the seriousness of the actions warranted a significant prison sentence and should deter others who might consider engaging in domestic terrorism.

Reznicek was sentenced to eight years in prison in June 2021 after pleading guilty to a similar charge. She appealed the sentence, but it was upheld by a federal appeals court in June.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 83to0; communists; democrat; jessicareznicek; obamajudge; odiousbamajudge; pipeline; rebeccaebinger; richarddwestphal; rubykatherinemontoya; sdiowa
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1 posted on 09/22/2022 5:50:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

But...it was for the planet, your honor...


2 posted on 09/22/2022 5:51:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Same sentence as a guy dressed in a Buffalo costume simply standing in the Capital.


3 posted on 09/22/2022 5:54:08 PM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: BenLurkin
Did anyone check the US attorney for six fingers?

Maybe he killed her father...

4 posted on 09/22/2022 5:56:58 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Ten bucks says she gets a pardon from The Big Guy...soon.
5 posted on 09/22/2022 5:57:53 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These a$$’s were members of the Marxist group Iowa CCI. I have been on the receiving end of some of their protests over the years .
They are also affiliated with the Des Moines Catholic Worker House.
Another Marxist organization .


6 posted on 09/22/2022 5:59:21 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She was also assessed a 3.2 million dollar fine. I wouldn’t let her out till she paid every penny.


7 posted on 09/22/2022 6:00:07 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She was also assessed a 3.2 million dollar fine. I wouldn’t let her out till she paid every penny.


8 posted on 09/22/2022 6:00:07 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just six years. And probably not even the full 6.

Women get only on average 1/3 the sentence men get for the same crimes.


9 posted on 09/22/2022 6:03:02 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We need a death penalty for sabotage.


10 posted on 09/22/2022 6:08:46 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
These are the two:


11 posted on 09/22/2022 6:13:56 PM PDT by Michael.SF. ( The problem today: people are more concerned about feelings than responsibility)
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R-U-F-F ROUGH


12 posted on 09/22/2022 6:17:33 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Saboteurs and traitors need to be executed. Period!


13 posted on 09/22/2022 6:18:41 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We need to deport the biatch. Shoot her if she tries to come back.


14 posted on 09/22/2022 6:27:49 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Josef Bidenov is a teenager killer.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And Biden did 100 the times the damage with the stroke of a pen


15 posted on 09/22/2022 6:42:43 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Russia funds these greenies so stop their competitors from supplying energy.
These people are stupid useful idiots.


16 posted on 09/22/2022 6:52:05 PM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gosh, she got almost as much as trepassers in the Capitol.


17 posted on 09/22/2022 7:07:21 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

white supremacists - domestic terror - yep


18 posted on 09/22/2022 7:14:52 PM PDT by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nice, but how long until the Biden regime comes out and claims they were white supremacist MAGA supporters?


19 posted on 09/23/2022 1:11:51 AM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: Regulator

Yep and she did cause damage.


20 posted on 09/23/2022 8:09:33 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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