Andrews electrician sentenced to prison for failing to file taxes, mail fraud

ODESSA -- A federal judge sentenced an Andrews County electrician to 97 months in federal prison today for a false billing scheme and failing to file tax returns.

The false billing scheme by the electrician, 46-year-old Randall Varian Hanks, resulted in more than a $1.5 million loss to local businesses, a United States Attorney’s Office press release said.

United States District Judge David Counts also ordered Hanks to pay $1,786,559.68 in restitution and be placed on supervised release for a period of three years after completing his prison term, the release detailed, and ordered Hanks to forfeit his residential property to the government, agreeing it was proceeds generated from the defendant’s fraudulent scheme.

Hanks was convicted by a federal jury of four counts of mail fraud and three counts of failure to file a tax return on Nov. 9 last year, the release stated.

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