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WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO GET A REALLY LONG TAX SENTENCE?

February 19, 2005

It looks like Jeff Weakley has done about everything he can do to qualify for a long stay at Club Fed:

-He hasn't filed a tax return since 1985.
-He has helped manage a conspiracy to launder money and commit tax fraud via a "Warehouse Bank," enabling members to conduct anonymous cash transactions.
-The conspiracy mailed over $10 million in cash "wrapped in aluminum foil" as part of the conspiracy.
-He forged a family tree in a second-hand bible to get a false social secuirty number under an alias.

His sentence? 30 months in prison.

30-months in the federal can is no picnic, of course. Still -- a vast conspiracy of money laundering and tax evasion would seem to rate at least as long a prison term as Sudafed smuggling.

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