Criminal
Dec. 6, 2012
Lawyer sentenced in tax fraud case
Santa Monica estate and tax attorney Robert M.L. Baker III must spend three years in federal prison and pay more than $2 million in restitution for filing false tax returns, U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II ordered Monday.
By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Santa Monica estate and tax attorney Robert M.L. Baker III must spend three years in federal prison and pay more than $2 million in restitution for filing false tax returns, U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II ordered Monday.
Baker pleaded guilty in January to eight counts of conspiracy and filing false returns for himself and his law practice. He also failed to pay taxes on $916,000 he had misappropriated from a de...
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