"Real Housewives of Atlanta" Personality Fails to Report to Prison to Begin Serving Sentence

The husband of a prominent Atlanta reality television star who was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to participating in a complicated fraud scheme failed to report to prison as ordered on Wednesday, CBS Atlanta reports.

Apollo Nida was given an eight year prison sentence in July after pleading guilty to charges of conspiring to commit mail, wire and bank fraud. He was ordered to surrender himself to authorities at a minimum-security prison in Kentucky by noon on Sept. 10, but was spotted at home he once shared with “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Phaedra Parks.

Nida’s publicist told CNN that “an incident” had prevented Nida from reporting as ordered; an anonymous witness told the network that Nida had shown up at Parks’ home angry that she had not put any money into his prison account.

According to evidence produced in court, Nida and his co-conspirators stole checks or bought them from other criminal associates, filed false tax returns and false claims against the Department of Housing and Urban Development using stolen identities.

Nida and his conspirators then laundered the money by cashing the stolen checks at various financial institutions, posing as the people whose identities they had stolen. The conspirators even opened up fake collections agencies to obtain credit reports on the people whose identities they had stolen.

This scheme began in August, 2009 and affected over 50 people. Nida pleaded guilty to the fraud charges in May.

Days after his sentencing in July, Nida was ordered to pay $1.9 million in restitution.