A Virginia accountant will spend the next two-plus years in prison after he was convicted of filing bogus tax returns for his business.

U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema sentenced Henry Omozee to 27 months in prison and one year of probation, and ordered him to pay more than $82,000 in retribution for defrauding the government through a series of phony tax returns. An Alexandria jury in August convicted Omozee of three counts of filing false tax returns.