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Plea deal ends 'Girls Gone Wild' founder tax case
LOS ANGELES (AP) - September 23, 2009 Records filed Wednesday in Los Angeles show the "Girls Gone
Wild" founder will plead guilty to two counts of filing false tax
returns and one count of bribing Nevada jail workers in exchange
for food.
The plea agreement states Francis will pay $250,000 in
restitution and receive credit for jail time served. Francis was
indicted by a federal grand jury on tax evasion charges in 2007 and
has spent 301 days in jail.
He is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday afternoon. A trial had
been scheduled for October.
The agreement calls for any tax liabilities of Francis or his
companies from 2002 to 2008 to be handled in civil or
administrative arenas.
