I am sure at least a few of us are familiar with this star.
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Adult film star sentenced to prison
John Sowell,
This story was updated at 9:38 a.m. Tuesday
An adult film actress who once lived in Scotts Valley was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison for tax evasion.
U.S. Magistrate Thomas Coffin also ordered Janine M. James, 40, to live in a residential community corrections center for up to six months after her release from prison and to serve one year of supervised release.
James, who now resides in Huntington Beach, Calif., had faced up to a year in prison.
Known in the adult film world as Janine Lindemulder, James pleaded guilty last summer to intentionally failing to pay her income taxes. During her sentencing in U.S. District Court in Eugene, Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Cardani said James currently owes $294,000 in back taxes.
James, who first appeared in Penthouse magazine as the Pet of the Month in 1987 and later appeared in more than 50 adult films, was given until March 10 to report to prison.
James was arrested following an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service. Between 2000 and 2006, during a period in which she owed $200,000 in federal income taxes, James spent more than $750,000, investigators alleged.
She paid $648,000 to buy a home in Eugene in October 2005. She used nearly $182,500 from her divorce settlement from her former husband, Jesse James, owner of the West Coast Choppers motorcycle fabricator shop and host of the Monster Garage television show on the Discovery Channel, for the purchase.
In a letter to the court, Jesse James said he agreed to the settlement to help his ex-wife take care of her tax problems. None of the money went to the IRS, according to his letter and other court documents.
Janine James claimed her ex-husband alerted the IRS and pushed for her criminal prosecution to gain leverage in a bitter custody fight over their young daughter, who turns 5 next month. Jesse James left his then-wife while she was pregnant and later married film actress Sandra Bullock.
In her own letter to the court, Janine James said she moved to Scotts Valley in June 2004, nearly six months after her daughter, Sunny, was born.
“At this low point in my life, I tried to create the lifestyle I thought was taken from Sunny when her father left me for Sandra Bullock. That was a big mistake,” she wrote. “I was hurt and confused and made bad decisions about how I spent my money, ignoring my back taxes. I was threatened and intimidated by Jesse’s wealth, afraid I might lose my daughter to that wealth someday, and tried to ‘keep up.’”
A family court judge in Orange County, Calif., awarded Jesse James temporary custody of Sunny James while Janine James is in prison. The parents currently share custody.
The Scotts Valley property, which included a home with 2,300 square feet and 5 acres of land, sold for $610,000 in early 2006, according to records from the Douglas County Assessor’s Office.
The government alleged Janine James, who earned $350,101 in 2004 alone, had failed to pay on a tax bill stemming from 1996 to 2002.
She signed a $300,000 contract in 2004 with Vivid Video, a leading producer of pornographic movies, after retiring from the business five years earlier. She also earned money from an online fan club and from appearances across the country as an exotic dancer.
When she pleaded guilty, James also admitted buying a new Jeep for $31,000 and paying $20,000 down on a new recreational vehicle in June 2005. She also bought $25,000 of furniture and a $6,200 piano, while making no payments to the IRS.
Cardani claimed that James was paid in cash for many of her activities and that her actual income was much higher than the government alleged.
Defense attorney Ronald Hoevet, a Portland attorney with 35 years of experience as a tax fraud prosecutor and defense attorney, said James was prosecuted more for her celebrity than for her tax obligation.
“This is and should have remained a civil collection case,” Hoevet wrote.
Earlier this year, actor Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison, the maximum sentence in his case, for failing to pay his taxes.
“While Snipes failed to report far more income than defendant James, her tax defiant conduct is similarly offensive. She has demonstrated an attitude of greed and privilege, and has taken advantage of her status as a high profile figure, while at the same time wantonly ignoring her obligation to pay taxes,” Cardani wrote in a pre-sentencing memo. “A meaningful sentence is necessary to get the message to her and others that no one is beyond the law and they must pay their taxes just like everyone else.”
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http://www.nrtoday.com/article/2008...055&title=Adult film star sentenced to prison
Adult film star sentenced to prison
John Sowell,
This story was updated at 9:38 a.m. Tuesday
An adult film actress who once lived in Scotts Valley was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison for tax evasion.
U.S. Magistrate Thomas Coffin also ordered Janine M. James, 40, to live in a residential community corrections center for up to six months after her release from prison and to serve one year of supervised release.
James, who now resides in Huntington Beach, Calif., had faced up to a year in prison.
Known in the adult film world as Janine Lindemulder, James pleaded guilty last summer to intentionally failing to pay her income taxes. During her sentencing in U.S. District Court in Eugene, Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Cardani said James currently owes $294,000 in back taxes.
James, who first appeared in Penthouse magazine as the Pet of the Month in 1987 and later appeared in more than 50 adult films, was given until March 10 to report to prison.
James was arrested following an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service. Between 2000 and 2006, during a period in which she owed $200,000 in federal income taxes, James spent more than $750,000, investigators alleged.
She paid $648,000 to buy a home in Eugene in October 2005. She used nearly $182,500 from her divorce settlement from her former husband, Jesse James, owner of the West Coast Choppers motorcycle fabricator shop and host of the Monster Garage television show on the Discovery Channel, for the purchase.
In a letter to the court, Jesse James said he agreed to the settlement to help his ex-wife take care of her tax problems. None of the money went to the IRS, according to his letter and other court documents.
Janine James claimed her ex-husband alerted the IRS and pushed for her criminal prosecution to gain leverage in a bitter custody fight over their young daughter, who turns 5 next month. Jesse James left his then-wife while she was pregnant and later married film actress Sandra Bullock.
In her own letter to the court, Janine James said she moved to Scotts Valley in June 2004, nearly six months after her daughter, Sunny, was born.
“At this low point in my life, I tried to create the lifestyle I thought was taken from Sunny when her father left me for Sandra Bullock. That was a big mistake,” she wrote. “I was hurt and confused and made bad decisions about how I spent my money, ignoring my back taxes. I was threatened and intimidated by Jesse’s wealth, afraid I might lose my daughter to that wealth someday, and tried to ‘keep up.’”
A family court judge in Orange County, Calif., awarded Jesse James temporary custody of Sunny James while Janine James is in prison. The parents currently share custody.
The Scotts Valley property, which included a home with 2,300 square feet and 5 acres of land, sold for $610,000 in early 2006, according to records from the Douglas County Assessor’s Office.
The government alleged Janine James, who earned $350,101 in 2004 alone, had failed to pay on a tax bill stemming from 1996 to 2002.
She signed a $300,000 contract in 2004 with Vivid Video, a leading producer of pornographic movies, after retiring from the business five years earlier. She also earned money from an online fan club and from appearances across the country as an exotic dancer.
When she pleaded guilty, James also admitted buying a new Jeep for $31,000 and paying $20,000 down on a new recreational vehicle in June 2005. She also bought $25,000 of furniture and a $6,200 piano, while making no payments to the IRS.
Cardani claimed that James was paid in cash for many of her activities and that her actual income was much higher than the government alleged.
Defense attorney Ronald Hoevet, a Portland attorney with 35 years of experience as a tax fraud prosecutor and defense attorney, said James was prosecuted more for her celebrity than for her tax obligation.
“This is and should have remained a civil collection case,” Hoevet wrote.
Earlier this year, actor Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison, the maximum sentence in his case, for failing to pay his taxes.
“While Snipes failed to report far more income than defendant James, her tax defiant conduct is similarly offensive. She has demonstrated an attitude of greed and privilege, and has taken advantage of her status as a high profile figure, while at the same time wantonly ignoring her obligation to pay taxes,” Cardani wrote in a pre-sentencing memo. “A meaningful sentence is necessary to get the message to her and others that no one is beyond the law and they must pay their taxes just like everyone else.”
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