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BATH — Tax reform crusader Carol Palesky was sentenced Thursday to 16 months in prison for stealing $41,000 from one of her accounting clients.Tax reform crusader Carol Palesky is going to jail. In Sagadahoc Superior Court on Thursday afternoon, Justice Thomas Delahanty sentenced Palesky, 66, of Topsham, to 16 months in jail on the charge of theft by misapplication. Last month, Palesky pleaded guilty to taking $41,000 from D.S. Stoddard Inc., a Brunswick painting and maintenance company for which she had done accounting work. Rejecting arguments from her attorney that Palesky is too frail to cope with incarceration, Delahanty sentenced...