A U.S. District Court in Rhode Island has rejected a request that would have allowed convicted tax cheat Richard Hatch to travel to Samoa for seven weeks next month to take part in a 10th anniversary special edition of the television reality series Survivor.

Hatch, the first winner of Survivor, was convicted of tax evasion in 2006 for failing to declare his $1 million prize from the 2000 show. After serving nearly three years of his 51-month sentence in federal prison, he is now under home confinement in Newport, Rhode Island.

In a court filing made public Monday, Hatch stated that he would use any payment to pay off his outstanding taxes and stated that he would not be a flight risk.