WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Vaughn C. Hone, Jr., of Wellsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 12 months incarceration for failing to file tax returns, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
Hone, age 55, pled guilty to one count of “Failure to File a Personal Income Tax Return for Tax Year 2010" and one count of “Failure to File a Personal Income Tax Return for Tax Year 2011" in March 2017. Hone admitted to failing to file income tax in 2010 and 2011 in Brooke County.
Hone was also ordered to pay $170,066 in restitution.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert H. McWilliams, Jr. prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Internal Revenue Service investigated.
U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
