Robert Braddy, who fantasy folks might recognize as the creator and owner of DimeSports, was sentenced to 2.5 years in federal prison Monday for tax evasion.

The 39-year-old was found guilty in federal court of hiding more than $1 million of income, according to a statement released by U.S. District Attorney in Atlanta Sally Quillian Yates.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution writeup makes no mention of his fantasy sports exploits, but we know that Braddy’s fraudulent exploits haven’t been limited to his tax forms. Just last year a U.S. District Court in Georgia ruled in favor of a fantasy player who sued Braddy for $200,000 over fraud in DimeSports contests. That story brought to light the fact that Braddy admitted his system allowing a relative to cheat en route to winning.

Beyond his prison sentence, Braddy will face three years of “supervised release” and must pay $306,906 in restitution. (Perhaps his cousin can win Braddy enough to cover that.)

DimeSports.net, by the way, is no longer active.

A district court in Georgia has awarded $200,000 to a defendant who sued DimeSports.net for fraud.

The ruling finds that John Lowery of Michigan fairly won DimeSports’ salary-cap NFL game in 2008, but the top prize went to a higher scorer who was allowed to cheat the cap, was a cousin of DimeSports owner Robert Braddy and also just happened to win the $100,000 grand prize the year before — then also under circumstances heavily questioned by other competitors.

According to this recounting of basically the entire episode, Lowery sued the company after Braddy refused to work out a settlement, even while admitting that the system had allowed the team run by his cousin (Jarrod West) to break the rules.

“The same winner two years in a row for any new salary cap game is a red flag,” said our own Jeff Thomas, who testified in the case. “Couple that with a higher salary cap for the winning team and team rosters that aren’t displayed until days after the game, and that would lead any experienced fantasy game operator to expect fraud.”

The court seemed to have little trouble finding such fraud. Braddy apparently made his share of shady moves, including excusing software provider Mochanin from legal liability after previously suing the company, accusing it of the “glitch” that allowed his cousin’s team to cheat the salary cap.

Beyond that and a list of shady financial dealings, Braddy didn’t fortify his character by getting arrested for tax evasion and having cash and a stolen gun (among other items) seized from his home.

The full rundown can be found at the Yougab.com link above, and DimeSports.net appears to be dead currently. Before shutting down this season’s game a week in, however (and reportedly not yet refunding all of the entry fees), the company said its game would be back and “better than ever” in 2010.

Would it be possible to get worse?