Hecker Timeline
Oct. 2008: Hecker auto sales plummet. Checks bounce. Hecker starts closing dealerships.
Nov. 2008: Hecker sues Chrysler Financial for shutting line of credit.
Jan. 2009: Ford sues Hecker for loan defaults. Other lenders follow.
June 4, 2009: Hecker files for bankruptcy.
June 17, 2009: IRS, FBI and state raid Hecker's homes and offices.
Feb. 10, 2010: Hecker and former executive indicted for defrauding auto lenders.
Oct. 18, 2010: Hecker jailed for secretly cashing life insurance policies, not repaying public defense costs.
Feb. 11, 2011: Sentenced to 10 years for conspiracy, bankruptcy fraud.
Feb. 22, 2011: Hecker weds Christi Rowan by phone.
Feb. 24, 2011: Rowan, 38, arrested for cashing Hecker's dividend checks, illegally withdrawing from his account.
March 2011: Rowan sentenced to 14 months in jail.
Oct. 18, 2011: Hecker's first anniversary in prison.
