Fire Safety Manager Gets Prison Time
After admitting to defrauded the Rhode Island School of Design out of nearly $1 million in a fraudulent billing scheme, Patrick Clyne was sentenced to 27 months in months in prison for mail and tax fraud.
Clyne, who was fire safety manager for RISD, set up a shell company that billed RISD for work that was never performed. Clyne admitted to filing a false income tax return for 2003, conceding a total tax loss to the government of $162,743 between 2001 and 2005. As a condition of supervised release when he finishes his prison term, Clyne must file accurate income tax returns and pay all due taxes, plus interest and penalties.
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