{"id":2454708,"date":"2020-02-18T15:53:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T22:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=321115"},"modified":"2020-02-18T15:53:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T22:53:45","slug":"wife-of-embezzler-in-aspen-skiing-co-scheme-blames-husband-at-sentencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/wife-of-embezzler-in-aspen-skiing-co-scheme-blames-husband-at-sentencing\/","title":{"rendered":"Wife of embezzler in Aspen Skiing Co. scheme blames husband at sentencing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kerri Johnson walks to the courtroom at the Pitkin County Courthouse on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. <\/strong>
Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

While admitting that not everything about their online business selling second-hand skis seemed kosher, Kerri Johnson on Tuesday laid the blame for the years-long $6 million scheme squarely on her husband\u2019s shoulders. <\/p>\n

\u201cLooking back, there were indications that something was off,\u201d Johnson said during her sentencing hearing in Pitkin County District Court. \u201cBut I made the decision to trust (my husband) and that was my mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

That decision \u2013 coupled with the magnitude and length of the theft from Aspen Skiing Co. \u2013 led District Judge Chris Seldin to sentence Johnson, 49, to 90 days in the Pitkin County Jail, five years of probation and 300 hours of community service for her role in the scheme.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were questions she should have asked,\u201d Seldin said, including why the $3 million in income they made over more than a dozen years was never reported. \u201cThere\u2019s sufficient evidence to justify a punitive sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson was not taken into custody after Tuesday\u2019s hearing because Seldin allowed her to begin serving her jail sentence Friday at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s husband, Derek Johnson, is a former Skico executive who was in charge of the company\u2019s rental\/retail division for more than 15 years. During the course of that employment, he stole more than 13,000 pairs of skis from the company valued at about $6 million and sold them on eBay for about $3 million.<\/p>\n

Derek Johnson pleaded guilty to felony theft and was sentenced last month to six years in prison.<\/a> He is currently incarcerated at the Sterling Correctional Facility, Colorado\u2019s largest prison located in the northeast corner of the state, where his estimated earliest eligibility for parole is December 2022, according to online prison records.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story that will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kerri Johnson walks to the courtroom at the Pitkin County Courthouse on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times While admitting that not everything about their online business selling second-hand skis seemed kosher, Kerri Johnson on Tuesday laid the blame for the years-long $6 million scheme squarely on her husband\u2019s shoulders.  \u201cLooking back, there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2454708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 15:04:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}