After being arrested on more than a dozen wire fraud charges one year ago, a former Town of Chapel Hill employee was sentenced to prison time this week. A release from the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday said a federal district court judge sentenced 57-year-old Kumar Neppalli to 44 months in prison and ordered him to pay nearly $1 million back to victims he defrauded. Neppalli was arrested in January 2023 on 17 counts of wire fraud and six money laundering charges, the former of which he pleaded guilty to.