KNOXVILLE - A federal judge on Monday ordered a new prison term for a former Tennessee inmate who was part of a plot to steal fellow prisoners' Social Security numbers and rip off the IRS by filing false tax returns in their names.
Senior U.S. District Judge Thomas Phillips sentenced Larry Steven Covington Jr., 39, to 46 months in federal prison for his role in a plot to bilk the IRS.
He is the second Tennessee inmate to confess carrying out such a scheme. Career criminal James Glenn Collins pleaded guilty in December 2014 to a similar scam, and court records suggest he may have taught Covington the ropes in deceiving the IRS.
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