United States v. Walter A. Niemiec

ACKERMAN, District Judge.

Defendant Walter A. Niemiec appeals from his conviction by a jury of making perjurious statements to a grand jury in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1623. He was sentenced to one year imprisonment and fined $3,000. During the period covered by the indictment, defendant was employed as the Chief Probation Officer and later as Court Administrator for the East Chicago City Court in Indiana. The charges arose out of defendant’s alleged extortion of payments from Robert Klagstad, a bail bondsman, for the exclusive authority to write bonds in East Chicago.

Count I of the four count…