The former head of an Idaho construction firm has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges related to false tax filings and fraud, which helped the firm to stay eligible for key federal programs and strengthen its market position, the Dept. of Justice says.
Elaine Martin, 69, ex-president of MarCon Inc., a Meridian, Idaho, firm that installed highway guardrails and concrete barriers, pleaded guilty on Jan. 11 in federal district court in Boise to filing a false tax return, DOJ said. On the same day, B. Lynn Winmill, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Idaho, sentenced Martin to 24 months in prison for the tax charges and resentenced her for 60 months for fraud convictions. The sentences are concurrent.