SURVIVOR STAR HATCH IN JAIL AGAIN
Reality TV star RICHARD HATCH is back behind bars - three months after he was sentenced to home confinement.
Hatch, the winner of Survivor: Borneo in 2000, was arrested on Tuesday (18Aug09) and hauled off to a Massachusetts county jail used to temporarily hold federal prisoners.
The reason for his imprisonment has yet to be confirmed by representatives of the Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office.
Hatch was indicted and sentenced to four years behind bars in 2005 for failing to pay tax on the $1 million (£666,600) prize he’d earned from the show and subsequent TV appearances.
He was allowed to live in his Rhode Island home under supervision following his release from a federal facility in Morgantown, West Virginia in May (09).
His home confinement is due to end on 7 October (09) but he requested early release for various reasons, alleging his lawyers were ineffective and previously asking to take part in a 10th anniversary edition of Survivor in Samoa in August (09).
And in an interview aired on U.S. TV on Tuesday (18Aug09), broadcast just hours before his arrest, he detailed the legal injustices he believed shaped the result of his tax evasion case, accusing both the judge and prosecutors of discriminating against him because of his sexuality.
He told the Today show, "I know without question that there are personal issues involved for the prosecutor. I don’t know why. The prosecutorial misconduct has been egregious."
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