Nearly two and a half years after she fled the country to avoid going to prison, one of U.S. EPA's former fugitives will finally see the inside of a jail cell for her role in falsely certifying that hundreds of individuals had taken asbestos removal training.

A federal judge in Massachusetts slapped Albania Deleon with an 87-month prison sentence this afternoon and ordered her to pay $1.2 million to the Internal Revenue Service for tax losses and $369,000 to a Massachusetts insurance company that was bilked in her dirty scam.

Deleon was convicted in November 2008 on charges stemming from her work as president of Environmental Compliance Training in Massachusetts. Deleon used her position to sell false training certificates to individuals who had not taken asbestos removal training. She then placed those unqualified individuals in temporary jobs as certified asbestos abatement workers in public buildings throughout Massachusetts and New England.

"Based on the evidence at trial and information supplied by the Division of Occupation Safety, ECT issued training certificates to over 2,000 untrained individuals," a Department of Justice release on the case said today.

The release notes that many of the recipients were illegal aliens who wished to skip the four-day course so that they would not forgo a week's pay.

Deleon turned fugitive and fled the country just days before her original sentencing hearing in early 2009. Despite changing her name and appearance, Deleon was finally captured in the Dominican Republic in October 2010 by local authorities who were working with the U.S. Marshal Service. She was then extradited to the United States.

In Deleon's sentencing hearing this month, Deleon's lawyer had sought to bring down the restitution amount, arguing that the government had come up with a unclear methodology to come up with its total for assessing damages.

"We're obviously disappointed at the sentence," said Deleon's lawyer, Jessica Hedges. "It's our position that the government based its loss calculation on unreliable assumptions, and we will be appealing both the conviction and the sentence."