So he should be in jail and Ben should be released? I guess it hurts worse when it hits home?
34 yr sentence the way I read it and he was given a break for cooperating so good riddance!
"He got a break in a plea deal with the U.S. Attorney's Office after he agreed to work with them in other criminal cases.
Vorce gave sworn testimony, including in front of a grand jury, against two former business associates. They include former Kent County Sheriff's Deputy Ryan Steensma, who may have falsified documents to entice investors into putting their money into business ventures. That appears to violate wire fraud statutes, according to the motion.
Steensma is owner of a security company known as Redline 22, which works for companies in the Middle East and Africa.
"We are continuing the investigation of those two people," Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim Verhey told the judge on Thursday.
Vorce also testified in a Wisconsin homicide case, helping the prosecutor to convict a defendant.
"Mr. Vorce cooperated in a first-degree murder case in Milwaukee County, involving a very ugly homicide of a 21-year-old woman," Vorce's attorney, Larry Willey wrote in a sentencing memo.
Willey told Judge Bell today that Vorce went beyond just testifying in exchange for a break when he came forward in the Milwaukee murder case. Vorce shared a cell with the murder suspect, Calvin Pirtle, in Milwaukee County Jail and has told police the man bragged almost daily about the murder and other crimes.
"The brutality of it caught my eye, and also the fact that Mr. Vorce never contacted me, never contacted me to say why don't you get together with (federal prosecutors) to see what kind of credit I can get."
Instead, Vorce contacted Milwaukee detectives and testified against the killer, helping lead to a conviction, Willey said.
"He thought that was the right thing to do," Willey said. Willey called Vorce a "good person."
Vorce also cooperated with other government agencies and the banks that were victims of his fraud, according to a sentencing memo.
Vorce has agreed to forfeit his assets to the government and has transferred all that he owns to the banks, the memo states.
Despite the cooperation, the federal prosecutor asked the judge to consider the message he would send to "the next Michael Vorce. The community is watching this case."
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