Singer Lauryn Hill is expected to be sentenced today at a hearing in her tax evasion case, but her attorney says that she has made the required payments.
Last month, a judge gave Hill until today to pay back what she owed the government. She reportedly failed to file her federal income taxes for 2005, 2006 and 2007 and agreed to pay $504,000. Add in state taxes and penalties and the estimated total is up to $900,000, reports Reuters.
On Sunday, Hill’s attorney, Nathan Hochman, said in a statement that Hill made the payments. “Ms Hill has not only now fully paid prior to sentencing her taxes, which are part of her criminal restitution, but she has additionally fully paid her federal and state personal taxes for the entire period under examination through 2009,” Hochman said.
At her hearing last month, U.S. Magistrate Judge Madeline Cox Arleo said that Hill had only paid back $50,000 since she was arrested on tax evasion charges last year. Arleo decided to give her until May 6 to pay the rest.
Hill signed a new contract with Sony released a new single. She has only recorded one solo album, 1998’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which won five Grammys. She faced up to three years in prison on the three charges of tax evasion, but it’s expected that the sentence will be adjusted since she has paid what she owed.