Coyne was sentenced to five years for wire fraud. Restitution of $4,669,962.76 is part of that judgment.

A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the count admitted. Restitution is part of that judgment, not a new charge. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, that Chanise Coyne, 46, of New Boston, Michigan, was sentenced to five years in federal prison and three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $4,669,962.76 in restitution, for wire fraud. She pleaded guilty in May.

She admitted receiving more than $4.6 million from a local family by telling them the money was advance fees for their young daughter's participation in modeling events. She admitted fabricating records, including texts, emails, and invoices. That is the wire-fraud scheme in the May plea. It is a financial fraud. Those admissions are not new counts added when the court imposed sentence, and they are not a finding entered at a trial.

Reporting says she used fraud proceeds on gambling and spent more than $200,000 on Taylor Swift tickets. That spending is how the admitted proceeds were used. It is not a separate offense in this sentence. The five years, the three years of supervised release, and the restitution of $4,669,962.76 are the judgment on the wire-fraud count she admitted. Supervised release is part of that sentence. It is not a second case.