‘Balloon Boy’ Dad Gets Jail Time

By kevin 

Richard Heene, the father of “balloon boy” Falcon Heene, has been sentenced to 90 days in jail and four years probation for orchestrating the now-infamous hoax in October. The prosecutor said Heene “wasted a lot of manpower and a lot of money in wanting to get himself some publicity,” and the judge agreed. “This was all done for the purpose of making money,” he said.

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