"Girls Gone Wild" Joe Francis Arrested In LA

LOS ANGELES — "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis has been arrested in Los Angeles after he showed up five hours late for a court hearing in his tax evasion case.

When the adult-video entrepreneur finally appeared in court on Monday afternoon, he told the judge he was suffering from the flu. Francis' attorney Melissa Weinberger says U.S. marshals then handcuffed Francis and took him away.

Francis is accused of claiming more than $20 million in bogus business expenses on his corporate tax returns, including $3.8 million for a home in Mexico and $10.4 million in phony consulting services. He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of federal tax evasion.

The hearing was to consider a request from his tax attorneys to recuse themselves.

Comments

[jalowe1957]

Joe Francis: The sex exploiter finally falls down hard on his derriere, and the world is reveling in his fall from grace...

That's karma coming back at him...

[Drjimmy72296]

Can't believe Obama overlooked this guy for a cabinet post.

[whatsthisthen]

Let's do an audit of all Republicans and see who comes back perfectly clean.

[whatsthisthen]

I want him to go to jail and forfeit the bail.

[skippy20008]

Just don't understand...he has a license to print money, why not make sure to dot the "i's" and cross the "t's"? He has to know that the government's gunning for him and are going to nail him on any misstep.

[MsLiz]

Karma.

[martinchill]

he just did this so perez hilton wouldn't be able to say that he couldn't get arrested....

[dphilip]

.....another fine democrat....

[rabiddog6708]

The guy makes all that money and can't bring himself to pay his fair share of taxes........just like our political leaders.

[namewithheld]

I guess he won't be heading up the Department of Health and Human Services.

[Okieborn]

I have always been jealous of Joe and His girls !!!
Good Luck Joe !!!!

[Nikola Tesla]

Liberal Prudes. Pathetic.

[iRob08]

The man and his group of pervs exploited MINORS, that in addition to what he's accused of in this article.

What part of that do you not understand? He's a predat0r and a ped0phile!

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2006/December/06_crt_831.html

[Nikola Tesla]

The "minors" he "exploited" were 17, months away from thier 18th birthday, and THEY lied to HIM, showing him false I.D.

Attraction to an Adult (18) Woman is healthy.

The fashion industry that regularly uses 12-17 year old girls and boys to model their products goes unscrutinized while you rant about pedophilia.

18 year old women and men regularly enter the adult entertainment industry, through porn and strip clubs, but you choose to demonize a purveyor of mildly titillating soft core.

From my observation its a class objection, i.e. his models are college students. No one complains about poverty class women using dancing as a means to climb up the economic ladder, but god forbid my middle or upper class daughter/s­ister/cous­in/neighbo­r expose her breasts for fun.

Once again. Liberal Prudes. Pathetic.

[ramal]

Hmm... Do you think it might be a case of "Boys Gone Wild" for him while he's in the pokie?

[MizK]

Pokie is the key word here...

[Nikola Tesla]

Rape is SO FUNNY! HA HA HA!

[Beachrunner]

Maybe Obama will name Francis to head up the STD prevention campaign in the "stimulus" package . . . .

[tvrmx]

He is seriously the worst person in the world.

[Drjimmy72296]

Not in a world with George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, but he's definitely up there.

[isaac22]

looks like he took tax evasion tips from tom daschle

[2008CaliforniaFan]

No... he was waiting for the GOP to give Him his Porn Bailout.