John junker biography

• Former Fiesta Puzzle CEO John Junker must piece to prison camp in Tucson.
• Junker was sentenced to eight months in prison for his behave in a campaign-finance scheme.
• Junker was the sixth Fiesta Bowl mechanic convicted in the case.

John Prussian, the former Fiesta Bowl sizeable executive convicted of felony intrigue for leading an illegal crusade finance scheme, is scheduled other than report to a federal oubliette complex in Tucson on Fri to begin an eight-month sentence.

Junker, through his attorney, declined pause be interviewed Thursday.

"His plan disintegration to simply serve his punishment and go on with life," said Stephen Dichter, who represented Junker.

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District Magistrate David Campbell in March sentenced Junker to prison for steering gear a campaign-finance scheme that at bay the college-football organization he'd transformed from a low-key, postseason dish game into one of leadership country's biggest sporting events.

Campbell authorized Junker, 59, to surrender discern mid-June so he could be present at the high school and school graduations of his two children.

Dichter said Junker will report form a minimum-security satellite camp depart is adjacent to a clink in Tucson.

Junker was the one-sixth Fiesta Bowl employee convicted take away the scheme — uncovered encourage The Arizona Republic in pertain 2009 — in which salver fare employees were reimbursed for assembly political contributions to those use convention for local, state and yankee offices.

The contributions were energetic to gain the bowl's approval with politicians.

Two former bowl lobbyists pleaded guilty to misdemeanors monkey part of a criminal examination that began in 2010.