Overreach? MT Veteran Sent to Prison Over a Pond

The Daily Signal, a product of the Heritage Foundation, is profiling a series of cases involving overreach by the federal government. One of the cases comes from right here in Montana:

Joe Robertson, a Navy veteran from Montana, was 78 when he was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $130,000 in restitution through deductions from his Social Security checks.

His crime?

Robertson, whose business supplied water trucks to Montana firefighters, dug a series of small ponds close to his home in 2013 and 2014. The site was a wooded area near a channel, a foot wide and a foot deep, with two to three garden hoses’ worth of flow, according to court documents.

Click here to read the full report:

The Heritage Foundation also featured this video on federal government overreach: