Keith Michael Novak sentenced for stealing military IDs
Late last year we wrote about Keith Michael Novak who was in the Minnesota National Guard and stole the identities of more than 400 of his fellow soldiers to sell to members of his militia group who wanted to dissappear with different IDs according to the Associated Press;
Novak, who prosecutors say was leading an anti-government militia group in Minnesota at the time of his December arrest, pleaded guilty in April to one count of identity theft. In a letter read in court Friday by his attorney, Novak said he meant no harm and he apologized for the “terrible mistake” that has hurt people he cares about.
Prosecutors say Novak stole names, Social Security numbers and security clearance levels of roughly 400 members of his former Army unit and sold the information of 98 people to others so they could create false IDs for militia members in case they “ever wanted to disappear and become someone else.”
Novak believed he was selling the information to Utah-based militia members. They were really undercover FBI agents. His attorney, Anders Folk, argued that since the IDs weren’t used criminally, Novak should receive a lesser punishment.
Category: Blue Falcons
Again, we have yet another good candidate for the 4 Esses:
Supress(or)
Shoot
Shovel
Silence
That the individual (I refuse to call him a soldier) in question was willing to sell out his comrades in arms so quickly, I would have no problem with forgetting that he was buried under the prison.
I like the way the Apache used to deal with people like this. Stakes, short ropes, tied spread eagle, smeared with honey and left to rot in the desert sun…
Coyotes gotta eat too ya know
You’re not very sorry if you have your lawyer read your apology. I would have given him an extra year just for that. And the other piss poor excuses his lawyer gave the court hopefully fell on deaf ears. And I’m a criminal defense attorney.
One single count? Shouldn’t that be 400 separate counts of ID Theft?
Maybe I am wrong, but I thought the intent to use was just as bad as the actual use. I mean when the FBI, ATF, DEA etc set up sting operations like this to catch criminals trying to sell or procure an illegal product, do they get lesser sentences?
Rule #1: Don’t sell illegally obtained items to FBI agents.
Rule #2: You can tell that they are FBI agents because they want to buy your illegally obtained items.
What is it with Minnesota? We had a detainee in Cropper that had been a member of the MN National Guard in the eighties, and all these jihadi wannabes from there… That being said; the 34th ID is a bad-ass unit that has pulled some hellacious deployments, and the troops that I met were squared away. As far as light punishments go, I think the Guard goes easy on the offenders. There was a shitbag PFC on OJS that stole 4 NVGs, and got busted trying to sell one to the CID agent investigating his ass. I see him 2 years later at a MOB station, and he is a SPC.
Scumbag. I hope Bubba & Thor “straighten his ass out” before they share him with the rest of their cell block!
Correct me if I am wrong but he wasnt selling ID cards, He was providing person info as far as names SSNs Dates of Birth addresses etc.
Its pretty much the info any compant clerk can get.
Over 400 counts…yet he pleads guilty to 1? WTF? Turn him over to the folks who got their identities stolen…the one who lost the most gets the first shot at him. Forget the bar of soap in the sock, use a cue ball…