From The Oregonian:
U.S. goes after wages of PSU official to recoup restitution in eco-arsons of his radical youth
The U.S. government filed papers this week to garnish the wages of a Portland State University sustainability official to make him pay more in restitution for his youthful role in a pair of eco-anarchist firebombings.
Jacob D.B. Sherman, a 33-year-old husband and father of two, has distinguished himself as a scholar at PSU. He holds a master's degree and was student speaker at the school's 2012 commencement ceremony.
But long before that, Sherman went underground as an eco-saboteur for the Earth Liberation Front.
On Easter Sunday 2001, he and the famously barefoot environmental radical Tre Arrow, a one-time congressional candidate, set fire to three concrete trucks at Portland's Ross Island Sand & Gravel as a protest against what they viewed as the company's despoiling of the natural world. The arson caused $210,000 damage.
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A federal judge ordered Sherman and his three coconspirators to pay a minimum monthly payment of $50 in restitution for the damages they caused at the two Oregon businesses. Sherman's end of the restitution was $55,100, and he still owes $43,804.
But earlier this week, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathleen Bickers filed a writ of garnishment against Sherman and named PSU as the garnishee. Sherman was given 10 days to respond.
"I've been paying my restitution and am committed to paying my restitution," Sherman told The Oregonian/OregonLive on Friday. "It's unfortunate the government has taken this step. I've been told that two codefendants are delinquent."
He did these things. He was swept up in the hysteria of the deep ecology movement and went along with the ringleaders. These people have done way to much damage to the environment to be called environmentalists.
Time to pay the piper no matter how much he has turned his life around...
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