A former Arizona television newsanchor has been sentenced to a decade in federal prison for her role in a pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan fraud conspiracy.
On Friday, Nov. 21, Stephanie Hockridge — previously employed by Phoenix ABC15 — was sentenced by a federal judge in Texas to 120 months behind bars, according to local reports. She is expected to begin serving her sentence shortly after Christmas.
The court also ordered Hockridge and her co-defendants to pay nearly $64 million in restitution and placed her on two years of supervised release following her prison term…