The articles I read said she was guilty and was allowed to plead to a lesser crime.The judge decided to throw the book at her when. instead of being grateful for being allowed to plead to a lesser crime and receive a lenient sentence, she gave a very insincere allocution and then, outside the courthouse accused the judge of anti-Semitism.
The evidence that the prosecutor had included e-mails between Runge and her conspirators, in which she asked for invoices, a number of them phony, for the purpose of artificially raising the cost of the film so rhat tey could receive nearly $2 million from Iowa.