Mississippi Business Journal » steral http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:33:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Cemetery owner gets four years for mishandling trusts http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/08/cemetery-owner-gets-four-years-for-mishandling-trusts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cemetery-owner-gets-four-years-for-mishandling-trusts http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/08/cemetery-owner-gets-four-years-for-mishandling-trusts/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:59:54 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=67844 BOONEVILLE — Cemetery owner Wayne Hight of Booneville has been sentenced to serve four years in prison for failing to properly fund pre-need burial trusts. Assistant District Attorney Richard Bowen tells The Daily Corinthian reports Hight also was ordered to pay restitution of more than $500,000. Bowen said Hight, 74, pleaded guilty Friday in Alcorn [...]

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