North Carolina Man Sentenced for Tobacco Scheme Based in North Miss.
ABERDEEN, Miss. (WCBI) – U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock sentenced Calvin Phelps, of North Carolina, to 40 months in prison and a fine of $5.1 million in restitution payments on Monday.
Phelps was linked to a multi-state strategy to elude taxes and fees on tobacco sales.
In June 2012, Phelps entered a guilty plea to schemes to defraud federal and state taxing agencies, money laundering and lying about business dealings.
He revealed his involvement with an undercover business named G-Corp which helped him keep a fake paper trail of shipping tobacco out of the U.S.
G-Corp was located in Guntown.
Phelps requested he serve his time in the Butner Federal Corrections Complex in Granville County, N.C. given that it was closer to his family.
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