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An Oshkosh personal injury attorney was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison for not paying taxes between 2007 and 2009.
George Curtis Jr., 77, will have to pay $377,930 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service, the amount he didn't pay for three years, as well as $3,878.28 for the cost of prosecuting him. Eastern District Chief Judge William Griesbach also sentenced Curtis to one year of supervised release once he is released from prison.
A jury convicted Curtis in January of three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file a return, supply information, or pay taxes. According to a news release from U.S. Attorney Jim Santelle's...