Bill Weimar Indictment

The ADN has posted Bill Weimar's

• Charging Document
• Factual Basis for the Plea
• Plea Agreement
  

A quick preliminary look appears to reveal:

Weimer has agreed to plead guilty for the following:

• Count 1

...William Weimar, Candidate A, Consultant A, and others known and unknown, did knowingly and unlawfully conspire . . . to deprive the the public of the honest services that Candidate A would provide as an Alaska State Legislator, through a scheme to disguise WEIMAR’s direct payment to CONSULTANT A of approximately $20,000 in expenses for CANDIDATE A’s campaign for the legislature, without reporting the payment as required by applicable Alaska law and regulations and without routing it for payment through CANDIDATE A’s campaign, and through the foreseeable use of the mails, interstate were communications, in violation of Title 18 US Code Section 1341, 1343, and 1346.

• Count 2

Weimar concealed the money through breaking the $20,000 into three payments to avoid the required reporting of transactions over $10,000.



Presumably Weimar will cooperate with the Prosecutors as part of the agreement, though I could not, in my first reading of the agreement, see where that was spelled out.

The section of the Plea Agreement titled "What the Defendant Agrees to Do" doesn't really tell us what the Defendant will do for the Prosecutors.

• Section A covers "Material Elements of Plea Agreement" and says Weimar voluntarily agrees to sign this.
• Section B is called "Satisfaction with Counsel"
• Section C is "Charge To Which The Defendant Is Pleading Guilty" (see above)
  
• Section D is "Factual Basis for Plea" and goes into the facts that support the charges
  
• Section E is "No Downward Departures" where he agrees not to ask for a lower sentence.
• Section F is "Waiver of Venue" where (Montana resident) Weimar agrees to proceed in the District of Alaska.

Nothing here says what he agreed to do to help the Prosecutors - carrying a wire, testifying, or other actions.

III is Penalties and Consequences of Pleas
This says his penalty, if he complies completely, should be 10-16 months in prison
Three years of probabtion.
$3,000-$30,000 in fines.

IV is Rights Waived By Pleading Guilty

V is "What the United States Agrees to Do" which includes not prosecuting him for other things they already know about or come out of these particular charges.

VI is "Adequacy of the Argument"

VII is "The Defendant's Acceptance Of The Terms of This Plea Agreement"

Candidate A is not known, but appears to be a candidate who did not win the primary. Don't know which party Candidate A was either. Consultant A is also not named, but is not an Alaskan.

Weimar was a major player in the private prison business in Alaska, which was the industry that Tom Anderson was convicted of assisting. A major witness against Anderson was Frank Prewitt who was a consultant for Cornell, an Outside private prison company, which in the trial was cleared of knowing that Prewitt was cooperating with the FBI and that it was the FBI, not Cornell, that provided the money for Anderson.

Philip Munger at Progressive Alaska worked for the prison system, knew Weimar personally, and has posted on this topic too.

[8:30pm - Lisa Demer at the ADN has filled in more details to the article I linked to on top this afternoon. The link is still good. She suggests that Jerry Ward was the unsuccessful candidate the money was being sent to and fills in more on Weimar's relationship to Cornell. And that Weimar had been a Democratic activist much earlier.]