Wendy, along with many others, was involved in an ill-conceived Iowa film tax credit program that cost the state many times what it was expected to cost and ended with several state employees losing their jobs.
The issue here is not innocence but different penalties for different people committing the same offense. Wendy’s sentence was disproportionately harsh.
The “others” I was referring to include Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin and Jonathan Pollard, both of whom also received grossly disproportionate sentences; Yanky Ostreicher, caught up in a nightmarish political scandal in Bolivia; Alan Gross, who was convicted by Cuba of subversion for delivering humanitarian aid (electronic equipment) to the Jewish community; and Warren Weinstein, an aid worker in his 70s who was kidnapped by al Qaeda in Pakistan. Of course there are also the Israeli POW/MIAs.
You can disagree with the politics or actions of these individuals, but the bottom line is that they are all Jews in desperate need of a yeshua.