Post by Logan on Mar 20, 2016 1:39:14 GMT -6
From prison, SD exotic dancer loses appeal of federal tax fraud conviction, sentence
Veronica Fairchild, an exotic dancer serving a federal prison sentence for income tax fraud for not reporting $850,000 for private dances and sex – mostly from customer - lost her appeal of her 2014 conviction, Randolph Seiler, U.S. attorney for South Dakota, announced Friday.
Fairchild, 44, of Canistota, failed to report $850,000 in income from 2005-2008, a jury decided in June 2014. Fairchild argued the money was given to her as gifts and loans from David Karlen, Seiler said.
But Karlen, a wealthy man from DeSmet, testified at her trial that he paid her more than $1 million to dance for him and for sex, at $1,000 to $5,000 per episode.
Fairchild, who had been married until her husband committed suicide in the fall of 2013, has three children, including one born in the fall of 2014 after her conviction. At trial, she denied having sex with Karlen. She testified the money he gave her was a gift or a loan and that he lied about it to cover up his failure to pay taxes on it.
Read more: www.capjournal.com/news/from-prison-sd-exotic-dancer-loses-appeal-of-federal-tax/article_13778d10-ee43-11e5-b018-7343558c1d39.html
Veronica Fairchild, an exotic dancer serving a federal prison sentence for income tax fraud for not reporting $850,000 for private dances and sex – mostly from customer - lost her appeal of her 2014 conviction, Randolph Seiler, U.S. attorney for South Dakota, announced Friday.
Fairchild, 44, of Canistota, failed to report $850,000 in income from 2005-2008, a jury decided in June 2014. Fairchild argued the money was given to her as gifts and loans from David Karlen, Seiler said.
But Karlen, a wealthy man from DeSmet, testified at her trial that he paid her more than $1 million to dance for him and for sex, at $1,000 to $5,000 per episode.
Fairchild, who had been married until her husband committed suicide in the fall of 2013, has three children, including one born in the fall of 2014 after her conviction. At trial, she denied having sex with Karlen. She testified the money he gave her was a gift or a loan and that he lied about it to cover up his failure to pay taxes on it.
Read more: www.capjournal.com/news/from-prison-sd-exotic-dancer-loses-appeal-of-federal-tax/article_13778d10-ee43-11e5-b018-7343558c1d39.html