As if we haven’t had enough Tom Petters coverage, the Star Tribune piles on with yet another story about the Wayzata businessman:
If the prosecution had considered Deanna Coleman, the longtime confidante of Tom Petters and ultimate informant, its key to convicting the Wayzata businessman, the jury didn’t buy it.
If the defense’s strategy was to portray Petters as a personable entrepreneur, then it succeeded.
Nevertheless, once the 12 jurors began deliberating Petters' fate earlier this month, there was little doubt that he was the key participant behind the $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme for which he was charged on 20 counts, according to the jury’s leader.
Read the full story here: E-mails secured Petters verdict | StarTribune.com.
