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I do believe the cures for theills of the world can be found in the conversations conducted in hair salons, barber shops and nail salons. Theyfunction likethink tanks where the patrons and the stylist...
Posted on 3/7/12 at 10:18 PM
REEL QUICKIES Where would we be without history?
I watched The Young Victoria over the weekend. Finally. I've been wanting to see it since I first heard about it. I was not disappointed. The Young Victoria is aboutQueen Victoria of England, in the ...
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Judge: No new trial for former North Dakota workers’ compensation exec Sandy Blunt 
BISMARCK (AP) – A judge says a prosecutor didn’t withhold evidence in the trial of former North Dakota workers’ compensation director Sandy Blunt.
By Associated Press , September 15, 2010
Former North Dakota WSI chief Blunt appeals conviction
BISMARCK – The former director of workers’ compensation in North Dakota should have been acquitted of misspending public funds after a judge ruled that one $15,000 expense was not illegal, his attorney told the state Supreme Court on Wednesday.
By Dale Wetzel, Associated Press Writer , October 22, 2009
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- Blunt listens to arguments
- Mike Hoffman, the attorney for Sandy Blunt, the former director of North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and Insurance agency, uses an auction-sale analogy to describe how prosecutors handled a case against Blunt for allegedly misspending agency money
- Hoffman says the misspending allegations against Blunt changed as the case progressed
- Justice Mary Muehlen Maring says it “would have been a completely different situation” if the allegations against Blunt had not been lumped into a single felony charge. Hoffman says that should not have happened
- Hoffman says it was wrong to lump the misspending allegations together
- Chief Justice Gerald VandeWalle and Hoffman discuss the prosecution’s decision to bring a single felony charge against Blunt that covered a number of misspending allegations
- Prosecutor Cynthia Feland and Justice Mary Muehlen Maring discuss the prosecution’s decision to charge Blunt with a single felony crime of misspending public money, rather than several separate counts that would have detailed each misspending allegation
- Chief Justice Gerald VandeWalle says the Blunt prosecution’s only objective was to prove $10,000 worth of instances of alleged misspending, which was the minimum needed to charge Blunt with a Class B felony
- Feland says a $15,000 firefighting safety grant that was excluded from the evidence against Blunt was not necessary to convict him
- Feland says allegations of misspending against Blunt were lumped together into a single criminal charge because it reflected how the Workforce Safety and Insurance agency did business
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Sandy Blunt, former director of ND's workers comp agency, appealing conviction
BISMARCK - North Dakota's Supreme Court is reviewing the appeal of a former state workers compensation director who was convicted of misspending more than $26,000 in agency funds.
By Associated Press , October 21, 2009
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Wefald got 15-minute warning before PSC appointment
Judge Robert Wefald said at last week’s reception marking his wife Susan’s retirement from the North Dakota Public Service Commission that he remembers Gov. Ed Schafer’s office calling him on Dec. 15, 1992, Schafer’s first day in office.
December 29, 2008
Former WSI leader Charles 'Sandy' Blunt guilty on 1 of 2 counts
BISMARCK – Jurors found former North Dakota workers’ compensation official Charles “Sandy” Blunt guilty Friday of one felony count of misspending state funds while he led the agency, convicting him on the more serious of two charges he faced.
December 20, 2008
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N.D. WSI fires director of embattled agency; governor pushed action
The board of the North Dakota workers’ compensation program fired the executive director of the agency this morning after Gov. John Hoeven called for his removal.
By Lloyd Omdahl , December 06, 2007
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