(WTAQ-WLUK) – For the second time, an appeals court upheld Sterling Keinbaum’s conviction and sentence for a fraud scheme which netted $14 million.
Sterling Kienbaum, owner of Fox Valley Iron and Metal, would fill scrap automobiles with extra weight, sell them to Sadoff Iron and Metal, then remove the added weight. He was convicted of racketeering and theft. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
In 2020, the appeals court upheld his conviction and sentence.
He filed another motion in county court, arguing prosecutors broke the law by not turning over certain document but that was denied. He then took that case to the appeals court.
In its 14-page decision issued Tuesday, the appeals court also rejected Kienbaum’s arguments.
“We conclude Kienbaum is not entitled to sentence modification or resentencing. As for sentence modification, Kienbaum has not established the existence of a new factor,” the ruling states. “The record reflects that Kienbaum knew at the time he entered the $6 million restitution stipulation that his expert had worked with Krueger to offer critiques of Shaffer’s Shredder Observation sanity test. Because Kienbaum knew of this information, Kienbaum has not established that his stipulated restitution amount should now be deemed inaccurate.”
Kienbaum is currently housed at the Burke Correctional Center, state records show.
