Kentucky accountant who fled embezzlement case to appeal
CINCINNATI — A defense attorney apparently plans to appeal an eight-year prison sentence for a Kentucky accountant who spent most of six years as a fugitive in an $8.7 million embezzlement case roaming the Appalachian Trail. A notice of plans to appeal was filed Tuesday in Cincinnati for 54-year-old James Hammes (HAM’-uhs). U.S. District Judge