Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis was sentenced today to time served and a year of probation for filing false tax returns.
The Feds brought a huge tax evasion case against Francis a couple of years ago, but on the eve of the trial the government’s case fell apart and the whole thing turned into one big clusterfuck.
Apparently, Joe’s former accountant who was to be the government’s witness admitted that he was behind the tax fraud and had falsely implicated Joe. At least I think that’s what happened.
The details are so complicated it makes your head nearly blow off after reading only a few minutes of it.
I’ve always been a pretty vocal supporter of Joe’s in the past. I respect his hustle for taking a simple idea like Girls Gone Wild and turning it into an empire.
However, the recent surveillance footage of him beating the shit out of Playboy model Jayde Nicole in a nightclub is inexcusable. Yeah, she poured a drink on him, but the way he reacted was outrageous.
