PHOENIX (AP) -
A Prescott man has been sentenced to nine years in prison and ordered to pay more than $1.6 million in restitution in a tax fraud case.
Federal prosecutors said Friday that 77-year-old Richard Kellogg Armstrong also must pay a fine of more than $1 million and serve three years of supervised release.
A U.S. District judge in Washington, D.C. ordered Armstrong's 108-month sentence to run consecutively to the 660-day prison term previously imposed as punitive sanctions for 10 acts of contempt of court.
Armstrong was told to pay $1,678,834 to the Internal Revenue Service and forfeit two residences and a personal aircraft.
He was convicted in April after a three-week jury trial.
Prosecutors say Armstrong conspired to file false returns claiming large refunds based upon fictitious federal income tax withholdings.
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