Nardine Saad of The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Grammy award-winning singer Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in prison for tax evasion. The sentence, which will be followed by three months of house arrest and an additional nine months of supervised release, will begin on July 8.
Saad writes:
Hill, 37, pleaded guilty last summer to three misdemeanor counts of tax evasion, admitting that she intentionally failed to file tax returns in 2005, 2006 and 2007. She faced a potential prison sentence of one year for each of the three counts, but her attorney sought probation in the case.
Though Hill pleaded guilty for the time period between 2005 to 2007 when she is said to have earned about $1.8 million, her sentence also took into account additional income and tax losses for 2008 and 2009 and an outstanding tax liability to the state of New Jersey, for a total income of about $2.3 million and a total tax loss of about $1,006,517, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Read more at The Los Angeles Times.
This news brief was written by Kaitlin Higgins, editorial assistant for The Burton Wire.
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