Cops who moonlighted at suburban Chicago strip joints charged with tax fraud
CHICAGO Eleven current and former police officers and four others have been charged with failing to report income they earned as bouncers at suburban Chicago strip clubs. The defendants also include two jail guards, a suburban police dispatcher and a library official. All are charged with either filing a false tax return or failing to file. Prosecutors said they earned as much as 25-thousand dollars a year.
The clubs are operated by Michael Wellek, who has been feuding with the government for years over back taxes.
I-R-S agents raided a warehouse where Wellek worked in 2003 and confiscated bags of cash totaling 12 (m) million dollars. And he has been fighting in court ever since to get some of the money back.
He has not been charged with any crime.
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