Ken Jenne

Jenne was born and raised in Lake Worth Beach, Florida.{{Cite web|title=Your Move, Ken|url=https://www.floridatrend.com/article/13248/your-move-ken|website=floridatrend.com}}{{Cite web|title=Ex-Broward sheriff jailed year and a day|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2007/11/17/ex-broward-sheriff-jailed-year-and-a-day/|website=Sun Sentinel}} His father, Kenneth C. Jenne Sr., was employed by a utility company, and his mother worked for the Palm Beach County Clerk of the Court. He attended Palm Beach Junior College, where he was student government president. In 1968, he earned his Bachelor of Arts in political science from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, where he served as student body president.{{cite web|title=Florida Atlantic University - Alumni Hall of Fame 1985 |publisher=Florida Atlantic University Office of Alumni Relations |url=http://fauf.fau.edu/NetCommunity/SSLPage.aspx?&pid=1102&srcid=855 |accessdate=2006-12-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070303072009/http://fauf.fau.edu/NetCommunity/SSLPage.aspx?&pid=1102&srcid=855 |archivedate=2007-03-03 }}

He subsequently earned a Juris Doctor from Florida State University in Tallahassee.{{cite web|title=About Sheriff Ken Jenne |publisher=Broward County Sheriff's Office |url=http://www.sheriff.org/about_bso/admin/sheriff/aboutskj.cfm |accessdate=2006-12-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929022601/http://www.sheriff.org/about_bso/admin/sheriff/aboutskj.cfm |archivedate=2006-09-29 }} He later served in the United States Army Reserve. He retired at the rank of sergeant as a public safety supervisor. He graduated from the FBI's National Executive Institute, as well as the National Sheriffs' Institute.

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By 1972, Jenne was a prosecutor for the Broward County State Attorney's Office. Following his time as a prosecutor, he was elected to the Broward County Commission and served as commission chairman in 1976.

Jenne was elected to the Florida Senate in 1978 to represent District 32. He would remain in this position until 1988. Jenne was subsequently elected to the Florida Senate in 1990, this time representing District 29 and he would stay in this position until 1998.{{Cite web|url=http://www.flsenate.gov/data/Publications/Archive/SenateHandbooks/pdf/96-98%20Senate%20Handbook.pdf|title=The Florida Senate Handbook 1996-1998|accessdate=2010-04-26|publisher=The Florida Senate|year=1998}} Jenne is credited with holding a majority of the top committee chairmanships in the Florida Senate, including the position of Senate Democratic Leader. In January 1998, Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, a fellow Democrat, selected him to become Broward County sheriff to succeed the late

Ron Cochran.

As sheriff, Jenne directed a 6,300-member organization with a $638 million budget. Under his direction, the organization was responsible for law enforcement and fire rescue duties in 14 cities and towns, as well as all unincorporated areas of Broward County.{{cite web|title=Broward Sheriff's Office - About the Broward Sheriff's Office|publisher=Broward County Sheriff's Office|url=http://www.sheriff.org/about%5Fbso|accessdate=2006-12-18}} He resigned on September 4, 2007 in light of federal corruption charges.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/us/05sheriff.html|title=Florida Sheriff Set to Admit Guilt in a Corruption Case|first=Terry|last=Aguayo|work=The New York Times |date=Sep 5, 2007|accessdate=May 17, 2021|via=NYTimes.com}}

Jenne resigned in September 2007, after agreeing to plead guilty to federal tax evasion and mail fraud charges after a corruption investigation uncovered crimes in his outside business dealings, federal prosecutors said. Jenne faced a possible grand jury indictment on more serious money laundering charges. Several of Jenne's long-term Democratic allies, including former Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth and former Florida Senate President Jim Scott, pleaded for leniency.{{Cite web|url=https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20071116/News/605241830|title=Former Broward sheriff sentenced to prison in corruption case|last=THE ASSOCIATED PRESS|website=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|accessdate=May 17, 2021}}

Jenne pleaded guilty to three counts of tax evasion and one count of mail fraud conspiracy and was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison.

Before being assigned to prison, Jenne resided in the Federal Detention Center, Miami.McMahon, Paula and Tonya Alanez. "[http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/rothstein-s-dive-from-bahia-drive-miami-detention-107230.html Rothstein's dive from Bahia Drive: Miami detention center humbles lifestyle of disgraced attorney]." The Palm Beach Post. Tuesday December 8, 2009. Retrieved on December 30, 2009. In December 2007, he was transferred to the United States Penitentiary, Atlanta.Blum, Vanessa. "[http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sfl-0929jenne1206,0,6187453.story Jenne moved to Atlanta prison]", South Florida Sun-Sentinel, December 6, 2007; retrieved December 30, 2009. Later that month he was moved to the penitentiary in Lee County, Virginia.Nolin, Robert. [http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sfl-0929jenne1220,0,6056377.story "Ex-sheriff moved to Virginia prison"], South Florida Sun-Sentinel, December 20, 2007; retrieved December 30, 2009.[http://www.bop.gov/DataSource/execute/dsFacilityAddressLoc?start=y&facilityCode=lee USP Lee Contact Information], Federal Bureau of Prisons; retrieved December 30, 2009.[http://virginiascan.yesvirginia.org/Site_Selection/PropertyDetails.aspx?propertyid=233104 "Lee County Industrial Park Hickory Flats"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718190708/http://virginiascan.yesvirginia.org/Site_Selection/PropertyDetails.aspx?propertyid=233104 |date=2011-07-18 }}, virginiascan.yesvirginia.org; retrieved December 30, 2009.

Jenne served most of his sentence in the Virginia prison. By September 2008, he was moved back to FDC Miami, as he was a possible witness in a civil case against the Broward Sheriff's Office (BSO) involving a jail beating.Reich, Judith and Robert Nolin. "[http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sfl-0929jenne0928,0,7694791.story Broward's fallen sheriff freed from prison]", South Florida Sun Sentinel. September 29, 2008. Retrieved December 30, 2009. Jenne was released from FDC Miami on September 29, 2008. He now reportedly lives in Hollywood, Florida and is a business consultant.

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• [http://www.sheriff.org/ The BSO - Official Website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100322231818/http://www.sheriff.org/about%5Fbso/ The BSO - About the Sheriff's Office]

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