SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A former comptroller at Bossier Parish Community College will spend the next five years behind bars in a federal penitentiary, after being convicted of being the mastermind of a scheme that bilked the school out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to Alex Van Hook, acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana.
In addition to five years in prison, Carol Bates, who in July 2020 pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, was sentenced to three years of supervised after her prison sentenced is completed, and to pay $286,987.08 in restitution by Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr.
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