MIAMI COUNTY — A Miami County man was sentenced Monday in federal court to 12 months of house arrest and five years on probation for failing to pay income taxes on money he made as a consultant in Iraq. Gregory Light, 43, of Louisburg pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion. Light was deployed to Iraq while he was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Kansas Army National Guard. After his deployment ended, he returned to Iraq to work as a subcontractor with his own company called Lighthouse Consulting. US Attorney Barry Grissom says that Light admitted evading income taxes while he was a subcontractor. Light received a monthly salary that was wired to him by one contractor, but was paid in cash by another contractor. Grissom says Light used the cash to buy postal money orders which he smuggled back to the United States. Grissom says he stored the money orders in a safe deposit box and cashed them a little at a time so the bank would not file a report on the transactions. He didn’t report nearly $314,000 in income and failed to pay $82,000 in income taxes.
Updated 4/9/13 @ 11:11 pm
