Dakota Beacon

Nationally recognized insurance expert/author Joe Paduda weighs in on the prosecution of Sandy Blunt writing at Workcompcentral.com in his article “Who is the Crook?”:

Few things I've encountered in my 25-plus years in the insurance business are as outrageous as the prosecution of Sandy Blunt, the former head of the North Dakota work comp fund.

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Turns out it was way more than 'wildly excessive'; the Blunt conviction was the result of egregious prosecutorial misconduct.

The prosecutor didn't give Blunt's attorney exculpatory evidence evidence that would have proven that the sick leave charge was insignificant it wasn't even a concern to state auditors who had gone through the state fund's books with a fine-toothed comb. More importantly, the prosecutor didn't give the memo from the state auditor pertaining to this issue to Blunt's attorney.

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I have no idea what in the hell is going on up in North Dakota, but I do know this. Sandy Blunt is a decent, honest, very capable guy who has been absolutely screwed, apparently in no small part by a prosecutor who broke the law.

Read the whole article at:

http://www.workcompcentral.com/signup/news/article.htm?&article=a7239795142443051f6b540b45113e2ej

Joe Paduda is listed with a short biography at Business Week magazine:

http://www.businessweek.com/bios/Joseph_Paduda.htm