Denny Hecker's wife breaks silence; Hecker speaks from prison

The wife of fallen Twin Cities businessman Denny Hecker breaks her silence in an interview with WCCO-TV. Christi Rowan-Hecker explained the nature of her marriage to Hecker, who is currently housed at a low-security federal prison in Loretto, Penn. -- his sixth prison since being sentenced to 10 years for fraud.

Author:: BMTN Staff
Publish date:: Nov 9, 2012

The wife of fallen Twin Cities businessman Denny Hecker has broken her silence in an interview with WCCO-TV.

In her first interview since leaving prison, Christi Rowan-Hecker explained the nature of her marriage to Hecker. The former auto mogul is currently housed at a low-security federal prison in Loretto, Penn. -- his sixth prison since being sentenced to 10 years for fraud.

Hecker also spoke from prison by phone to reporter Esme Murphy, who interviewed Rowan-Hecker. The two married over the phone while Hecker was behind bars.

Rowan-Hecker has already served 10 months for committing perjury and falsifying a credit application.

See the WCCO interview with Rowan-Hecker below.

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Christi Rowan is out of prison and in some form of "supervised custody" after serving 10 months of a 14-month sentence for bank fraud and theft. Denny Hecker is serving 10 years in a federal prison camp in Duluth.

Hecker is at a federal transfer center in Oklahoma City, before being moved to a low-security prison near Pittsburgh. The convicted Twin Cities auto mogul was initially held in Duluth before being transferred to Wisconsin in February. Most recently, Hecker was serving his 10-year sentence at a medium security prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Denny Hecker's tour of the federal penitentiary system has likely come to an end. The former Twin Cities auto dealer, serving a 10-year sentence for fraud, has been relocated to his fifth prison facility in four months, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.

Prison officials confirm Hecker has been moved again, this time to a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Prison authorities in Duluth had recently placed him in special confinement away from the prison's general population. He was then transferred to a medium-security facility in Wisconsin.

The 38-year-old wife of Denny Hecker has completed her 14-month prison term for fraud and theft. She finished the last part of her sentence at a half-way house then home confinement since January. Denny Hecker was recently transferred from the minimum security facility in Duluth to a federal prison in Indiana.

Fox 9 is reporting the former Twin Cities auto-mogul is now at a medium security prison in Oxford, Wisconsin. Denny Hecker's attorney confirms his client was being kept in solitary confinement at the Federal Security Camp in Duluth for unknown violations.