Oh, and a follow-up on a notorious Survivor character. Remember Richard Hatch, who won the first Survivor series, and then in All-Stars sent a very forgettable woman into conniptions when he scootched past her in the nude?
Well, in previous Survivor columns, I reported to you that he was in great legal troubles for rather naively having failed to declare for tax purposes his million-dollar winnings after receiving the large cheque on national television. Well, I hear that in January he was convicted “of two counts of tax evasion and one count of filing a false tax return,” and ordered to be held in jail until a sentencing hearing coming up on April 28. So for just over 13 weeks he would
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be in jail.
The judge ordered the jail time because he “has the wealth and incentive to flee the country with the Argentinean hotelier he married in a Canadian same-sex ceremony” and because prosecutors alleged that “one of Hatch’s passports is missing, he has experience travelling abroad, and his ownership of property in Canada only recently came to light,” according to his local newspaper.
The judge apparently commented that his "likely sentence will be in the range of 33 to 41 months in prison,” though he faces a maximum of five years in prison AND a $250,000 fine.” The estimate could be raised if the prosecutors prove he "blatantly perjured" himself in a trial that lasted eight days. His lawyers, of course, planned to appeal. When do they ever fail to do so?
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