Girls Gone Wild impresario Joe Francis just dodged a second stint in the clink – he was facing additional jail time from his 2007 charges of tax evasion.
Joe Francis has agreed to plead guilty to filing false tax returns and will avoid further jail time in a tax case that spanned two states and several years, court filings show.
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.
Francis will fork over a quarter-mil to Uncle Sam and agree that he under-reported his earnings by $563,000. (The Feds allege it was closer to $20 million.) It’s hard to believe Joe made that much cash in the first place, but you save a lot of money when you pay your talent in beads.
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