Sioux Center Man Sentenced on Bank Fraud Charge
| U.S. Attorney’s Office January 22, 2010 |
A man who defrauded a Sioux Center bank was sentenced on December 30, 2009, to 30 days in federal prison.
Calvin Cleveringa, age 50, from Sioux Center, Iowa, received the prison term after an October 9, 2009, guilty plea to one count of making a false entry in bank records while acting as the vice president and loan officer of the American State Bank in Sioux Center.
At the guilty plea, Cleveringa admitted that on or about November 5, 2002, he made a false entry in the books, reports, and statements of American State Bank in connection with a $120,000 loan.
Cleveringa was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Judge Donald E. O’Brien. Cleveringa was sentenced to 30 days’ imprisonment. A special assessment of $100 was imposed, and he must complete 100 hours of community service. He must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Cleveringa was released on the bond previously set and is to surrender to the United States Marshal on a date yet to be set.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Timothy Duax and investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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