Sleep Number founder, seeking release from prison, cites ‘catastrophic’ Covid-19 outbreak

Robert Allen Walker, the founder of the company that would become Sleep Number — currently in prison for running a fraud scheme as CEO of Bixby Energy Systems — is asking a court to let him out to protect him from the spread of Covid-19 behind bars.

The Star Tribune reports on the bid by Walker, who was convicted in 2014 of defrauding investors of $57 million at Bixby, as well as tax evasion and tampering with a witness. He still has nearly a decade to go on his term, but an attorney argued…

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