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You mean I might go to jail if I plead guilty to 20 federal charges?

March 15, 2010

A Cedar Rapids landlord who recently was convicted of tax evasion is having second thoughts about pleading guilty to defrauding insurance companies:

Landlord Robert Miell is now asking to withdraw his guilty pleas for 18 counts of mail fraud and two counts of perjury he made last year.

He was also convicted by a jury in January 2009 for two counts of tax fraud and is to be sentenced June 7.

Miell has a new lawyer now, Alfredo Parrish of Des Moines, and the motion filed Thursday claims he had ineffective counsel and the court didn’t inform him of the penalties and restitution he faces.

He was charged with filing fraudulent hail damage claims. He owned over 400 rental properties in Eastern Iowa. The liquidation of his assets to cover his debts has begun.

In the unlikely event he gets his plea overturned, he still has to deal with that tax conviction.

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They got Capone on tax charges. The Cedar Rapids Landlord, too.