Wondering About Washburn

From a reader:

“Saw Dana Washburn in Wal-Mart the other day. Looking like she had been on a beach in Cabo for months. When if ever is this woman going to jail?”

Yes, we too thought U.S. District Judge Leon Holmes meant it when he ordered Washburn to report to federal prison on May 9 to begin serving her 41-month sentence for defrauding IberiaBank Corp. of almost $3.6 million back in 2008.

But her lawyers, W.H. Taylor and William B. Putman of Fayetteville, asked for another 90 days “due to a medical condition” – presumably the urinary incontinence that was the subject of hours of testimony at her long-delayed sentencing hearing in October – and most of that extra time was granted since federal prosecutors didn’t object.

Washburn is now scheduled to report to the Bureau of Prisons on Aug. 8. Neither Taylor nor Putman could be reached for comment.

There’s also no indication in the federal court docket that Washburn has paid any of the $3.58 million in restitution to IberiaBank that she agreed to when she pleaded guilty in May 2009. That might be because she no longer has her $200,000 a year job at the Rogers headhunting firm of Cameron Smith & Associates.