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The former executive vice president of the Arkansas Home Builders Association, who helped herself to $100,000 of the association’s money, began serving her 12-year prison sentence in August.

But that’s not all of Julie Mills’ legal problems.

The AHBA wants a default judgment slapped against the 52-year-old woman and is seeking more than $200,000 in damages. The non-profit association in Little Rock first sued Mills in November 2014 and asked a judge to order Mills to account for certain financial transactions she was responsible for during her tenure, which ran between 2004 and 2014.

The case was put on hold in 2015 while a theft of property charge against her was pending.

In July, Mills pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to 12 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. She also received an additional eight-year suspended sentence. Pulaski County Judge Chris Piazza ordered her to pay $100,000 in restitution to the AHBA.

Allegations of Mills’ wrongdoing weren’t confined to the AHBA office, the association said in a lawsuit filed against Mills’ husband, Greg Mills, earlier this month.

The AHBA said that less than a month after it sued Julie Mills in 2014, she transferred her interest in her $82,000 family home in Austin (Lonoke County) to her husband.

Julie Mills wasn’t paying her bills at the time of the transfer, and the transaction was done “with actual intent to hinder delay, or defraud AHBA, other creditors, or both,” according to the AHBA lawsuit, filed by attorney John Keeling Baker of the Little Rock law firm of Mitchell Williams Selig Gates & Woodyard.

AHBA wants to void the quit claim deed from Julie Mills to her husband.

Greg Mills had not answered the lawsuit as of Thursday, and he couldn’t be reached for comment.

Julie Mills is serving her sentence at the McPherson Unit in Newport. She is eligible for parole from the low-security prison on Dec. 12, 2019.

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