WASHBURN, N.D. — Two men accused in
pleaded guilty to felony and misdemeanor charges in South Central District Court on Feb. 8, 2021, and were ordered to pay restitution and spend more than a year in prison.
The father-and-son pair — Bartley Gorman, Jr., 56, and his son, Sean Patrick Gorman, 27 — appeared from Ft. Worth, Texas, via Zoom to change their plea from not guilty to guilty.
South Central District Judge James Hill sentenced them each to 30 months in prison with 15 months suspended and two years of supervised probation. He also ordered them to pay $729,000 in restitution, in addition to court costs.
Prosecutors have said the two men are part of the “Irish Travellers,” which they described as a longstanding organized crime group, also called the “Travellers,” “The Irish Mob,” or the “White Gypsies.” (Traveller with the double “l” is the British English spelling of the word.) The investigators say the Gormans previously were involved in a widespread roofing scam that members of the group perpetrated on elderly people in Oklahoma. In North Dakota, investigators said the Gorman General Contracting company, based in the Minot area, carried out a
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