Carlos Mencia has been charged with tax evasion after Los Angeles prosecutors stated he didn’t pay taxes from 2019 to 2024.
The Los Angeles District Lawyer’s Workplace on Thursday introduced 12 felony counts towards Mencia for failing to report $8.7 million in private and enterprise revenue, which interprets to roughly $300,000 in state taxes.
Mencia, whose actual identify is Ned Arnel Holness, was arrested earlier this morning at his Encino residence, stated Los Angeles District Lawyer Nathan Hochman. He faces a most sentence of over ten years in jail, plus civil penalties and curiosity on the taxes he didn’t pay that may nearly double the quantity he owes. His bail was set at $250,000, along with his arraignment scheduled for Monday.
Of the $8.7 million Mencia didn’t report, $5.4 million got here from Nedlos Leisure, a manufacturing and administration firm owned by the comic, in response to prosecutors.
The California Franchise Tax Board despatched Mencia over 78 notices that he didn’t file his returns, Hochman stated. He failed to reply.
It stays unknown whether or not Mencia paid federal taxes.
The costs towards Mencia are the primary to be introduced by the enterprise tax fraud unit. Hochman stated he created the group due to the federal authorities’s retreat pursuing such instances.
“We used to have a really vibrant tax part within the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace throughout the road,” Hochman stated. “We don’t anymore. The previous unit I got here from, which is the tax division within the U.S. Division of Justice, doesn’t exist on the prison aspect anymore.”
He added,” The quantity of tax violations is within the hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of {dollars} yearly.”
