LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – The sentencing date for former University of Nebraska Regent David Hergert has been delayed again. Hergert had been scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday, but a federal judge approved delaying that until Dec. 14. Hergert has admitted inflating the assets of Hergert Milling so he could keep a $3 million loan from First National Bank of Omaha.
Hergert pleaded guilty in March to one count of submitting a false document to a bank in a deal that is expected to get him probation. Hergert was removed from the university’s board of regents in 2006 after the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled he broke campaign finance laws during his 2004 regent campaign and lied to conceal that. The Mitchell businessman lost his grain storage operation after officials discovered a grain shortage there.