{"id":235,"date":"2007-06-29T17:35:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T21:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=235"},"modified":"2008-08-05T13:10:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T17:10:42","slug":"mrs-hovind-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Hovind sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wife of Dr. Dino, Jo Hovind,\u00c2\u00a0was sentenced to a year in federal prison<\/a> and has to pay $8,000.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her husband, founder of Creation Science Evangelism and Pensacola’s defunct Dinosaur Adventure Land, was found guilty in November of 58 federal counts, including failure to pay $845,000 in employee-related taxes. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for tax fraud and ordered to pay $640,000 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.<\/p>\n

The theme park used dinosaur display to show visitors his view that humans and dinosaurs coexisted and that evolution did not occur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wife of Dr. Dino, Jo Hovind,\u00c2\u00a0was sentenced to a year in federal prison and has to pay $8,000.\u00c2\u00a0 Her husband, founder of Creation Science Evangelism and Pensacola’s defunct Dinosaur Adventure Land, was found guilty in November of 58 federal counts, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-3N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2194,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2194","url_meta":{"origin":235,"position":0},"title":"Dr. Dino the martyr","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Kent \"Dr. Dino\" Hovind is entangled in yet more legal problems. 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