Man accused of faking death and heading to eastern Europe sentenced in Green Lake County

A man accused of faking his own death on a Wisconsin lake last year was sentenced Tuesday. Ryan Borgwardt was sentenced to pay $30,000 restitution and spend 89 days in the Green Lake County Jail. A judge said the jail sentence was the same number of days Borgwardt “allowed his deception to continue,” after faking his kayaking death on Big Green Lake and deserting his family for a woman in the eastern European nation of Georgia. Borgwardt and his wife divorced earlier this year. He made a brief apology in court Tuesday.