Age: 42.
High school: Graduated from Elbow Lake-Wendell, 1984.
College: Received business degree, Moorhead State University, 1989.
Petters case timeline: Hired by Tom Petters, 1993; became government witness, Sept. 8, 2008; pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, Oct. 8, 2008, and now is awaiting sentencing.
Just as Lawrence Kazmerski, a top official at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was about to give the keynote address at the University of Minnesota's annual E3 conference at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, the lights went out, bathing the audience in darkness and a deep sense of irony.
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