(BENTON, IL) — A West Frankfort woman was sentenced in federal court in Benton Thursday on her bankruptcy fraud conviction. According to court records, 42-year-old Jenny L. Parks-Smith was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered her to pay a fine and special assessment totaling $200. Parks-Smith was indicted on Feb. 2 of this year as part of an effort to crackdown on those who commit fraud during the course of bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Illinois. The indictment charged Parks-Smith with concealing assets in a bankruptcy case. When she pled guilty on July 12 of this year, Parks-Smith admitted that she concealed from the Bankruptcy Court a $17,500 settlement she received for a worker’s compensation claim. Parks-Smith further admitted that she used this money to pay personal and family expenses. Parks-Smith’s chapter 13 bankruptcy case was filed and litigated in the United States Bankruptcy Court in Benton.