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Posted: February 6, 2004
On February 2, 2004, the U.S. District court in Colorado sentenced a fifty-two-year-old man from Colorado Springs to over four years in prison for making false statements to a federal grand jury about a 1997 arson that destroyed an IRS office.
Ronald Sherman, who pleaded guilty to perjury in October 2002, falsely told the grand jury that on the night of the arson he was playing pool with James Floyd Cleaver, who was sentenced to 33 years in federal prison for his role in the arson.
In May 1997, Cleaver, the former head of a now-defunct anti-government extremist group, and two other men used five gallons of gasoline and a timing device to ignite a fire that gutted the IRS office in Colorado Springs.
Sherman testified against his co-defendants at their trials.
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