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3-9-20 wild rose man convicted of defrauding sadoff iron and metal

todayMarch 9, 2020

A Wild Rose man has been convicted in a racketeering scheme that defrauded Sadoff Iron and Metal in Fond du lac out of thousands of dollars.  As part of a plea agreement 55 year old Daniel  Christianson  pleaded no contest to one count of racketeering and five counts of theft were dismissed and read into the record.  A sentencing hearing is scheduled for November 18.  According to a criminal complaint Christianson was a semi-truck driver for Fox Valley Metal and was involved in a scheme to fill scrap automobiles with extra weight and then selling the scrap to Sadoff Iron for a greater value defrauding Sadoffs.   The owner of Sadoff told detectives his company was defrauded in excess of  $100,000  According to the complaint Christianson would pay Sadoff employee Donald Krueger cash in exchange for Krueger accepting loads of scrap automobiles in excess of what they should have been.

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