A former Johnson City man now living in Bluff City was sentenced along with a Bristol woman on bank fraud convictions and each will spend 46 months in prison in a case that cost a local bank $4.2 million, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Greeneville.
Tommy Eugene Blair, 61, of Bluff City, and Tina Rogers, 44, of Bristol, were each sentenced to serve 46 months — three years, eight months — in prison for federal bank fraud, bank fraud conspiracy and perjury.
The two were convicted of these charges in U.S. District Court in Greeneville, in August.
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