{"id":200777,"date":"2020-06-04T11:36:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T16:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=200777"},"modified":"2020-06-04T12:02:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T17:02:16","slug":"no-jail-time-former-wells-co-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=200777","title":{"rendered":"No jail time for former Wells County Sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-122606\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LawsonJohnny-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LawsonJohnny-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LawsonJohnny-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LawsonJohnny.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARK, N.D. (Minot Daily News) \u2014 A former sheriff in North Dakota won\u2019t spend any time behind bars after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors on accusations he stole more than $750,000 from the state government.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-three-year-old Johnny Zip Lawson, the former Wells County sheriff, was ordered to pay full restitution during sentencing in federal court earlier this week. Minot Daily News reports he could have been sent to prison for 10 years and fined $250,000.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson was ordered to serve three years of supervised release. Lawson and his wife, Christine Diana Lawson, were indicted for \u201cconverting for their use $751,000 in overpayments&#8221; made from North Dakota\u2019s Department of Human Services. She was given the same sentence earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARK, N.D. (Minot Daily News) \u2014 A former sheriff in North Dakota won\u2019t spend any time behind bars after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors on accusations he stole more than $750,000 from the state government. Forty-three-year-old Johnny Zip Lawson, the former Wells County sheriff, was ordered to pay full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200777"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200781,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200777\/revisions\/200781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}