Arkansas Business

In early March 2009, in the first public sign of trouble, Mills was removed as CEO.

The company filed for bankruptcy on May 5, 2009 and stopped operating on July 19, 2009.

At his sentencing hearing in October, Mills told U.S. District Judge Leon Holmes, "I'm very sorry to have got caught up in this, and I regret that what I did was illegal. I don't have any excuses."

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