The former Christian County auditor will spend the next three years on probation after pleading guilty to impersonating a CPA and failing to do duties in her office.

A grand jury indicted Lacey Hart with 15 misdemeanors in July of 2017. She was then removed from office by county officials.

The indictment charged she “knowingly and willingly” failed to prepare the county budget and transmit it to the county commission by November 15, 2016 as required by law. She was also indicted for allegedly failing “to prepare and submit the county's monthly financial statement, specifically striking a balance of all county offices and township offices, showing monies collected and due” in every month from September 2016 to June 2017, as required by law. In addition, the grand jury indicted Hart for “knowingly used the designation "CPA," tending to indicate that she was a certified public accountant, in correspondence” on four different occasions, when she did not hold a valid certified public accountant certificate or permit.

The judge sentenced Hart to 40 hours of community service on top of her probation. Defense attorney Dee Wampler says she's "ready to move on with her life." She had faced several years behind bars.