{"id":118972,"date":"2011-08-23T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=118972"},"modified":"2011-08-24T12:17:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T17:17:38","slug":"prison-for-not-paying-taxes-on-embezzled-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=118972","title":{"rendered":"Prison for Not Paying Taxes on Embezzled $1 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=118973\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118973\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/08\/thumb_dept-justice-seal6.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_dept-justice-seal\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-118973\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBEAUMONT (AP) &#8211; A North Texas woman has been sentenced to prison for not paying taxes on more than $1 million that investigators say she embezzled.  Federal prosecutors in Beaumont on Tuesday announced 48-year-old Cynthia Watts Riggins of Allen must serve 2 1\/2 years in prison for committing tax fraud. Riggins pleaded guilty in March  to filing a 2005 false tax return.  Investigators say Riggins, who was sentenced Monday, must repay $1.2 million to her former employer, McLean Orthopedics of Nacogdoches, and to the Internal Revenue Service.   Riggins was the company&#8217;s office manager for a decade. Prosecutors say she failed to report the embezzled funds as taxable income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEAUMONT (AP) &#8211; A North Texas woman has been sentenced to prison for not paying taxes on more than $1 million that investigators say she embezzled. Federal prosecutors in Beaumont on Tuesday announced 48-year-old Cynthia Watts Riggins of Allen must serve 2 1\/2 years in prison for committing tax fraud. Riggins pleaded guilty in March &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=118972\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prison for Not Paying Taxes on Embezzled $1 Million<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 03:08:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118972"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119359,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118972\/revisions\/119359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}