His daughter, Sherry Hatcher, 42, of Augusta, Ga., received five years' probation and was ordered to pay $4,141 in restitution after pleading guilty to aiding and assisting in the filing of a false tax return

Ezra Hatcher of Hepthziba was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $69,684 after pleading guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States. The Department of Justice press release did not state how long Hatcher served in prison following his previous conviction.

The Hatchers were accused of filing 21 inflated returns on behalf of seven individuals between 2014 and 2018.