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DENVER (AP) -- A man who has been touted as a "tax crusader" is scheduled to be in a Denver courtroom Monday afternoon to be sentenced for tax fraud.

A Denver jury had found Douglas Bruce guilty on felony charges including evading state taxes, filing a false return and failing to file a tax return.

Bruce, a former Colorado Springs lawmaker, could face up to $500,000 in fines and up to 12 years in prison.

Prosecutors said that Bruce used an anti-tax charity he founded to hide and use money and deliberately failed to pay taxes from 2005 to 2010.

Before the tax scandal Bruce was best known for writing Colorado's Taxpayer's Bill of Rights.

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