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Abby Lee Miller Reports To Prison For Bankruptcy Fraud

This week Abby Lee Miller Reported to prison for bankruptcy fraud. For those of you not familiar with the television reality show Dance Moms that aired in 2011, Abby Lee Miller was one of the big stars through her company the Abby Lee Dance Company. She also appeared in another hit reality TV show Dancing with the Starts as a judge. Abby Lee has remained in the spotlight over the past seven years, although for reasons not pertaining to dancing. The television celebrity’s nearly decade long drama came to a sad close this week as she reported for a yearlong prison sentence for bankruptcy fraud.

In December of 2010, Miller filed for bankruptcy, owing an access of $400,000 in taxes. She was then accused of opening secret bank accounts in 2012 and 2013 in order to hide more than $750,000 in profits from her many business ventures including television appearances. She even went as far as enlisting friends to quietly transport large amounts of cash in their luggage to hide it from authorities. Miller plead not guilty and delayed her fraud case as long as was permitted by law, filing a total of five extension requests to the court trying her bankruptcy fraud indictment case. In 2016, Miller arranged a deal with the IRS’s criminal investigations division which would reduce her sentence in exchange for a guilty plea. In May, 2017 Miller was finally sentenced and received 366 days in jail, which see reports for this week. In addition to serving time in prison, she was ordered to pay $160,000 in fines and judgment money, as well as to give a DNA sample relating to her felony charge.

This story has left many people scratching their heads and wondering, why didn’t she just pay the back taxes and settle what she owed? When asked this of Abby Lee Miller, she is quoted as saying “I made mistakes and I trusted people, but ultimately I have to take responsibility”. The overall moral of the story should be that crime simply does not pay in the long run. One may be able to hide assets for a short time, but it is the duty and obligation of trustees and court judges to attempt to root out those that would take a beneficial debt relief process like bankruptcy and abuse it for their own personal gain.

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