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After defrauding a bank to support a music festival that lost $2.3 million, two senior officials from a Cedar Rapids tourism board were sentenced to serve time in a federal prison
The two Go Cedar Rapids officials lied to their bank about ticket sales to get money to pay Kelly Clarkson, who was supposed to headline the festival.
Lang 2/16/23 former leaders of GO Cedar Rapids...the defunct group which put on the failed NewBo Evolve festival in 2018....have been sentenced to less that two
The "newbo evolve" festival turned into a financial debacle; now two of its key organizers must report to prison and pay over $1 million to a bank they defrauded.
Hunter 09/03/22 The two leaders of GO Cedar Rapids, which put on the failed Newbo Evolve festival in 2018, are to be sentenced later this year for bank fraud.