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Tim DeChristopher, a University of Utah economics major student will be sentenced Tuesday, July 26 for fraudulantly bidding at a Bureau of Land Management Auction more than two years ago. DeChristopher is an environmental, climate change justice activist who posed as a bidder for leases for oil drilling in eastern Utah. He kept bidding and bidding, even though he did not have the cash or the intent to pay for the lease. His whole fraud activity upset the normal procedures of federal government business with the private sector. Those who side with him believe that he is a hero saving...

Tim DeChristopher was convicted yesterday of two federal counts related to fraudulently bidding on oil and gas leases auctioned by the Bureau of Land Management. He faces a maximum 10 years in federal prison and fines. Prosecutors have stated that they will not seek the maximum sentence. DeChristopher will be sentenced in June 2011. Tim DeChristopher is a convicted tree hugger who was out to disrupt the legal bidding of land for lease for development of oil and natural gas. Instead of seeking legal avenues to redress his grievances, which we all have as citizens, he chose to disrupt the...

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah man who infiltrated a sale of federal energy leases in December 2008 to protest U.S. policies about climate change was found guilty by a jury Thursday of disrupting a government auction and faces up to 10 years in prison. The defendant, Tim DeChristopher, 29, became a folk hero to some in the environmentalist movement for taking action against the leases, which provoked protests and demonstrations in the closing days of the administration of President George W. Bush because of the perceived risk to sensitive lands in southern Utah. In his four-day trial in federal...