Harrold Women Sentenced in Election Law Violations Case
PIERRE, S.D – Attorney General Marty Jackley announced that Janice Howe, Harrold, 54, was sentenced yesterday to 4 years with 4 suspended in the state penitentiary for perjury. In addition, Howe was given 4 years of probation.
Charges stem from the circulation and attempted filing of petition sheets on a petition to amend the Constitution. Howe was charged by Complaint on January 31, 2002. The charges allege that Howe verified under oath that she had personally witnessed signatures on the petition sheets when she had not. Howe was arrested in July 2015 on an arrest warrant issued after the filing of the complaint. Two other individuals were charged with similar offenses relating to the same petition. Their cases have been resolved through the judicial system.
The case was investigated by the Division of Criminal Investigation and prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office.
Is it one woman sentenced or more than one? Headline doesn’t match the story.
Why did it take so long…charged in 2002…but not sentenced for 13 years? Has she been on the run? Just seems odd.
Jackley was busy prosecuting all thhose who carted off tens of millions in the EB5 corruption and now busy prosecuting those involved in the federal Native kids grant scandal.
Wasn’t she fighting the DSS over removing Indian children from their relatives? Correct me if I am wrong, but I think they took a couple of her grandchildren? That’s probably why they went back to 2002, to try and shut her up. She a big activist when it come to Indian children.