Harriette Walters, the former tax office manager for the District of Columbia, was sentenced to 17 and a half years in prison for masterminding a tax scam estimated to have cost the district $48.1 million.
Walters pleaded guilty last September to running the tax fraud scheme (see
Walters, 52, apologized to the court before sentencing was pronounced by U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan. Ive accepted full responsibility for the part I played, she said.