text: A convicted white-collar criminal was sentenced Wednesday for persuading his son to shoot him in the leg as part of a staged insurance scam a day before he was to set to start serving a decade-long federal prison term from a high-profile mortgage fraud case. 
   
   U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown called Shannon Egeland's insurance scheme and concocted shooting, which led to the amputation of his left leg, "an unthinkable kind of situation,'' and tacked on three years and 10 months to his 10-year sentence for mortgage fraud. 
   
   The additional time resulted from Egeland's guilty plea in May to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in the elaborate insurance scam, and for interstate failure to pay child support. 
   
   Egeland, who stood on a prosthetic leg before the judge in U.S. District Court in Portland, said he's spent time reflecting the past 3 ½ years he's been in custody, and has realized he's in need of mental health counseling and treatment. He's now taking three mental health-related medications. 
   
   "What bothers me the most is my son - the pain is on him,'' Egeland said. "The pain that he has shouldn't be there...I've had 3 ½ years to recognize I am broken...If I could take it all back, I would, but I can't...That will haunt me the rest of my life.'' 
   
   On July 31, 2014, Egeland directed his son Rylan Egeland, then 17, to shoot him in the leg with a shotgun along a roadside in Caldwell, Idaho, hoping to delay his prison sentence and benefit from a bogus disability insurance policy that he had applied for seven days earlier. 
   
   The son shot Egeland in his lower legs and then left the scene. Egeland called 911 and claimed he was a victim of assault when he stopped to help a pregnant motorist. He told authorities he was suddenly hit in the head and shot along the side of the road. 
   
   Egeland previously had pleaded guilty to fraud charges for his role in the Desert Sun housing scandal that rocked Central Oregon in 2009. Egeland was a co-owner of Desert Sun, which raised millions from local banks through a series of phony business plans and falsified loan applications. 
   
   On Wednesday, prosecutors sought a five-year sentence for the insurance scam while Egeland's lawyer urged a two-year sentence to be served consecutive to the 10-year sentence he's already serving. 
   
   Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Bradford described Egeland in a sentencing memo as a "menace to society,'' who has been on a crime spree since 2004. Egeland came up with the trumped-up shooting plan to delay his prison sentence in the mortgage fraud case and benefit from fraudulently obtained disability insurance, he said. 
   
   Bradford called Egeland a "self-absorbed, opportunistic narcissist,'' motivated by greed who recklessly manipulated his son. 
   
   "The psychological and emotional destruction defendant caused this minor child is unimaginable,'' Bradford wrote in the memo. 
   
   Egeland had his teenage son obtain a 20-gauge shotgun, while Egeland got the ammunition and directed his son to shoot him in the legs on July 31, 2014. Seven days earlier, Egeland had submitted an application for a disability insurance policy to Standard Insurance, falsely claiming he had never been arrested or indicted for either a felony or misdemeanor in the prior 10 years, according to court records. 
   
   Standard Insurance did not suffer an actual loss because the fraud was quickly detected, Bradford said. 
   
   While on pretrial release in the mortgage fraud case, Egeland was accused of delivery of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school in December 2010 and a year later, of perjury, accused of lying on the witness stand in the drug trial, prosecutors said. He was convicted of both at trial, but the Oregon Court of Appeals overturned the drug conviction because of a jury instruction problem. In June 2013, Egeland also pleaded guilty to theft for shoplifting from Fred Meyer. 
   
   At the time of the shooting, the senior Egeland was suffering from a "perfect storm'' of medical and mental health issues and financial difficulties, and the "anxiety of having to report for a 10-year federal prison sentence'' was weighing down on him, his defense lawyer Ryan O'Connor told the court. 
   
   O'Connor urged the judge to consider that Egeland already faces a lengthy sentence that will be a challenge for him. 
   
   "This will be hard, difficult time for him because of his physical disability,'' O'Connor said. "He understands he brought this on upon himself.'' 
   
   Egeland also was ordered to pay the $90,011 he owes in child support. The judge urged him to get mental health treatment and counseling while in prison, and to submit to a new mental health evaluation when he gets out of custody. 
   
   -- Maxine Bernstein 
   
   mbernstein@oregonian.com 
   
   503-221-8212 
   
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   An Oregon mortgage fraudster has had his jail sentence extended by a judge after he made his teenage son shoot him in the legs in a bid to delay prison. 
   
   Shannon Egeland, 43, lost his limb in the 2014 shooting, which he staged a day before he was due to report for a 10-year custodial term. 
   
   The shooting came one week after he applied for disability insurance. 
   
   A prosecutor described Egeland in a sentencing document as a "menace to society". 
   
   "The psychological and emotional destruction defendant caused this minor child is unimaginable," Scott Bradford wrote in the court memo. 
   
   If Egeland had died in the stunt "the minor child would have been left to deal with the consequences", the assistant US attorney added. 
   
   In 2014, Egeland was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in an extensive mortgage-fraud scheme, orchestrated through the housing development company where he worked as vice-president, reports KOIN, a TV news channel in Portland, Oregon. 
   
   Authorities say he raised millions from local banks through a series of bogus business plans and falsified loan applications. 
   
   A judge allowed him to self-surrender to prison. 
   
   But Egeland concocted a plot to postpone his jail term and cash in on an insurance fraud, reports the Oregonian newspaper. 
   
   He had his 17-year-old son shoot him in the lower legs with a 20 gauge shotgun on 31 July 2014. 
   
   The teenager then left the scene on the side of the road in Caldwell, Idaho, about 30 miles (48km) west of Boise. 
   
   Egeland called police and said he had been attacked after stopping to help a pregnant driver. 
   
   He told police he was hit in the head and shot. 
   
   A week before the shooting he had taken out a disability insurance policy, falsely claiming he had not been arrested in the past decade. 
   
   The fraud was quickly detected. 
   
   As a result of the gunshot, Egeland had his left leg amputated. 
   
   He stood on a prosthetic limb as he addressed the court in the city of Portland on Wednesday. 
   
   "The injury that I sustained doesn't even bother me," Egeland told the judge during his sentencing hearing. 
   
   "What bothers me the most is my son. The pain is on him. 
   
   "If I could take it all back, I would, but I can't. That will haunt me the rest of my life." 
   
   He received an additional three years and 10 months in jail.
target: – A white-collar crook is facing extra prison time for having his son shoot him in the legs with a 20-gauge shotgun, the BBC reports. Shannon Egeland, 43, was already facing 10 years for taking part in a vast mortgage-fraud scheme when he had his 17-year-old son shoot him by a road in Caldwell, Idaho, in an attempt to avoid prison. "The psychological and emotional destruction defendant caused this minor child is unimaginable," US attorney Scott Bradford wrote in a sentencing memo. Back in 2009, Egeland was co-owner of an Oregon development company that defrauded banks out of $20 million in loans that he and a partner used to fund a lavish lifestyle. Facing prison, Egeland took out disability insurance and had his son aim for his legs. Egeland told police he'd been attacked after stopping to assist a pregnant driver, but investigators got suspicious when his pricey BMW, his wallet, and his cellphone weren't taken, the Idaho Statesman reports. Then they learned about his recent insurance, and the whole thing unravelled. Now Egeland is facing an extra 3 years and 10 months for his roadside scheme and had his leg amputated from the shotgun blast. Bradford called him a "self-absorbed, opportunistic narcissist," the Oregonian reports, but Egeland—who is now on three medications for mental health—has cast his own judgment. "What bothers me the most is my son—the pain is on him,'' he says. "If I could take it all back, I would, but I can't. That will haunt me the rest of my life.''