For immediate release: Thursday, April 13, 2006

For more information: Jack Magee, Chief Legal Counsel , SD Dept. of Revenue and Regulation, (605) 773-3311



(PIERRE, SD) – The owner of a Norris business was sentenced April 12, 2006 to six years in the state penitentiary and ordered to pay more than $215,000 in restitution and other costs after pleading guilty to three Class 6 felony counts of filing false or fraudulent sales tax returns.

Forty-five-year-old Lyndon D. Huber received the maximum prison sentence allowed; in issuing the sentence, Circuit Judge Lori S. Wilbur said the fraudulent reports and nonpayment involved in the case warranted the maximum punishment. Huber was also ordered to pay restitution of $210,183.17 in tax and interest to the State of South Dakota as well as $5,000 for prosecution costs. He was immediately remanded to the custody of the Mellette County Sheriff to begin serving his six-year sentence.

Huber was originally charged with the felony counts for filing false or fraudulent sales tax returns for his business, Norris Pool Hall, Inc., during its operation in 2002. The younger Huber ran the business with his father, Virgil Huber, also of Norris. Virgil Huber is scheduled to be sentenced on June 14, 2006.

The case was investigated by the South Dakota Department of Revenue and Regulation’s Investigative Services Bureau and was prosecuted by special assistant attorney general Donald Srstka.




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