{"id":614,"date":"2007-04-16T08:53:02","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T13:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/04\/16\/girls-gone-wild-creator-indicted-on-tax-fraud\/"},"modified":"2008-10-20T15:22:21","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T21:22:21","slug":"girls-gone-wild-creator-indicted-on-tax-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/girls-gone-wild-creator-indicted-on-tax-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls Gone Wild creator indicted on tax fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Francis, the founder of the &#8220;Girls Gone Wild&#8221; video series has been charged with [tag]tax fraud[\/tag] for deducting over $20 million in false business expenses on the 2002 and 2003 corporate tax returns of his companies Mantra Films Inc. and Sands Media Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The improper deductions included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$2.78 million to build a home in Punta Mita, Mexico<\/li>\n<li>$10.4 million in fake &#8220;consulting&#8221; services<\/li>\n<li>$500,000 in fake insurance expense<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Francis allegedly makes about $29 million a year from his videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Francis, the founder of the &#8220;Girls Gone Wild&#8221; video series has been charged with [tag]tax fraud[\/tag] for deducting over $20 million in false business expenses on the 2002 and 2003 corporate tax returns of his companies Mantra Films Inc. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-9U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}