Joe Francis has spent his life duping young girls into flashing their breasts in front of a camera. Now, he’s claiming that he’s the one that’s been duped.
As previously reported, Francis is facing a trial in September on federal charges, including tax evasion. The fed allege that Francis claimed over $20 million […]
Ben Stein may be known best by my generation knows as the best as the economics teacher in the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (”Bueller…. Bueller….?). But he is also an attorney, former presidential speechwriter (for Nixon and Ford) and regular newspaper columnist for the New York Times.
Stein’s political beliefs generally tilt towards the […]
The long saga of the notorious “Spam King”, Edward Davidson, ended on a sad note this weekend. The bodies of Davidson, his wife and young daughter were found in Davidson’ SUV, the result of an apparent murder-suicide.
Federal authorities had been searching for Davidson since the beginning of the week when he literally walked away […]
Joe Francis, the rich and troubled founder of Girls Gone Wild, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of federal tax evasion. He claims that he was the victim of a scheme by his accountant to profit from the IRS whistleblower program.
The indictment alleges that Francis claimed over $20 million in phony business […]
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As excited as I am about the upcoming premiere of “90210″ (and no, I am not embarrassed to say that there’s not an episode of the old one that I haven’t seen), I am a bit perplexed as to why my readers are […]
And I thought Wesley Snipes got off easy… A South Korean court has found former Samsung Chair Lee Kun-hee guilty on tax evasion and securities law violations stemming from transactions allegedly orchestrated on Samsung’s dime - but he escaped jail time.
The 66 year old Kun-hee was accused of avoiding more than $112 million of […]
It has not been a good year for Eric Nederlander.
Nederlander is probably best known as the guy that Jessica Sklar married for a few weeks before she left him to marry Jerry Seinfeld (ouch). Nederlander rebounded and subsequently married child psychologist Lindsay Kupferman. The two had a baby in 2007 and […]
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Paul Hogan, who rose to prominence in the 1980s as “Crocodile Dundee”, feels pretty important these days. He is being pursued by the Australian Tax Office and the Internal Revenue Service for moneys allegedly owed.
Hogan estimates that he has paid the ATO $100 […]
A federal judge has granted Wesley Snipes’ request to travel overseas while he waits the outcome of his appeal.
Snipes had requested to go to London to sit in on the editing process for his new horror flick Gallowwalker and to fly to Bangkok to film the action thriller Chasing the Dragon. The prosecution argued […]
The Department of Justice issued a press release on Monday advising that it has filed court papers to allow the IRS access to request information from UBS AG about US taxpayers who may be using Swiss bank accounts to evade federal income taxes.
The Times had previously reported that UBS might reveal up to 20,000 […]
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Written by Kelly Phillips Erb [email] for b5media.
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