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Fed court orders Nauer to self surrender on Sunday

Former Department of Education bus division supervisor Gustav Nauer, sentenced in June for his role in the spare parts scheme, will start serving his jail term tomorrow at the federal detention center in Honolulu.

Nauer was to start his jail term last weekend “at a designated federal detention center” however, a court order signed by U.S. District Court Judge David Alan Ezra Aug. 15, allowed him is to self surrender no later than 10 a.m. Aug. 26 (tomorrow) at the federal penitentiary in Honolulu.

Nauer was ordered to bring with him any medications he anticipates needing in a 48-hour period and proof of these medications being prescribed by a physician.

“It is strongly recommended that the U.S. Marshals Service heed the recommendation of Federal Bureau of Prisons Medical Designator and transport the defendant expeditiously through a commercial flight directly to his designated facility to avoid any material lapse in provision of medical care,” said Ezra.

Where Nauer resided prior to his self surrender is not clearly identified in the order, nor is his medical condition.

Samoa News first learned that Nauer faces a medical condition in Ezra’s June 7 sentencing order, which recommended the detaining of Nauer at a federal prison close to a “US medical center where a defendant with end stage renal disease [that] can be treated and the facility has hemodialysis capabilities.” No other explanation was given for this recommendation but sentencing for Nauer was delayed twice due to what defense said in court documents, were health reasons.

Nauer pled guilty in January of last year, to one count of conspiracy to commit federal program bribery in connection with a bribery scheme at the Department of Education school bus division spare parts.

Nauer admitted in a plea agreement that he conspired with local DOE official Paul Solofa to purchase “phantom” school bus parts that would never be delivered, and actual school bus parts at inflated prices, all from a specific company, identified by prosecutors before as Pacific Products Inc.

He was sentenced in June this year to 25 months in prison and restitution “due immediately, to be paid jointly and severally” by Nauer and co-conspirator Paul Solofa and any remaining balance upon release from confinement be paid during the three years of supervised release on an installment basis.

Solofa was sentenced in June this year at the federal court in Washington D.C. to 35 months in jail after he was convicted by a federal jury on one count each of witness tampering and obstruction of justice.

Solofa started his sentence at the federal detention center in Honolulu two weeks following his conviction. As of yesterday, the Federal Bureau of Prison website shows that Solofa is projected to be released in August 2014.

Solofa has started the process of appealing his conviction and sentencing at the federal appeals court in the nation’s capital.