Abby Lee Miller has just been sentenced to 1 year in prison
Two years after her indictment and a long-awaited verdict, former Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller, has officially been sentenced to one year in federal prison.
The reality star was sentenced to one year and one day in prison followed by two years of supervised release on Tuesday, according to several reporters in the courtroom. She was also reportedly fined $40,000 and ordered to pay a $120,000 judgment. She has 45 days to report to prison.
“It’s a very serious situation when someone who files for bankruptcy isn’t truthful with the court,” Judge Joy Flowers Conti told the court.
Miller was charged in 2015 with 20 charges of bankruptcy fraud and false bankruptcy declarations after the FBI, IRS and postal inspectors conducted an investigation. She allegedly hid more than $755,000 in other bank accounts, which reportedly came from appearances on the show in 2012 and 2013.
Lee Miller initially filed for bankruptcy in 2010. In the reorganization plan she submitted to the court, the reality star did not indicate she had a contract for the show, according to the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette. It reportedly was not until Judge Thomas Agresti spotted the choreographer on television that he canceled a hearing to discharge her bankruptcy case and requested she disclose any contracts.
“The problem here is that it looks to the court that she was hiding the ball,” Judge Agresti said at the time, per the newspaper, “and until she got caught we wouldn’t have known about this.”In June 2016, Lee Miller pleaded guilty to concealing bankruptcy assets. Miller also pleaded guilty to one count of not reporting an international monetary transaction.This comes after the star quit the hit show Dance Moms back in March, citing differences with the producers as her reason.While appearing in court Tuesday, she told the judge “I am very sorry for what I’ve done,” she said, according to reporters. “My name has been dragged through the mud.”
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