Minnesota is not only a beautiful state to live in, we apparently have a popular federal prisons up here too. Jeffrey Skilling of Enron “fame” is going to do his time up here. According to the Pioneer Press, we have had some other infamous prisoners in the state:
- Former television evangelist Jim Bakker (convicted of bilking followers)
- Richard Miller, the first FBI agent convicted of spying
- Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, terrorist linked to Osama bin Laden
- Presidential fringe candidate Lyndon LaRouche (fraud, tax evasion)
- Comedian Tim Allen (cocaine trafficking in his early 20s)
I don’t think that list is going to make it to the Chamber of Commerce literature.