German American Community Service

CK - Washington.   Klaus Lederer, a German manager convicted in Germany resides in Florida. In a German court, he received a suspended jail sentence and an order for 1,000 hours of community service, the German law blog reports. The Florida community may be served, the court allowed. A less curious and more serious aspect of the conviction is the crime: Lederer failed to file timely for bankruptcy. So serious, in fact, that the sentence is for the suspended 18 months imprisonment, the community service and a fine of 250,000 Euros. Lederer admitted the crime, so, presumably, he knew about the effect of the conviction on his immigration status. A German web site notes that Lederer initi…