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Two sentenced in Knox County tax-fraud case
A federal judge has handed down prison sentences for two women who took part in a tax-fraud conspiracy that operated from a Knox County pawn shop.
Patsy Carnes was sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison on Tuesday and Dianna Hill to one year and four months, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
U.S. District Judge Amul R. Thapar also ordered the two to be jointly liable for $222,652 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
Carnes and Hill and brothers Brian and Billy Ray Hamilton were charged in a conspiracy to file fraudulent tax returns in 2011 and 2012. The four worked at the Bailey Switch Pawn Shop.
Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article89219462.html