Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman today announced felony state tax evasion charges against comedian Carlos Mencia for failing to report $8.7 million in personal and corporate income taxes between tax years 2019-2024. This is the first case filed by the Office’s newly established Business Tax Fraud Unit.
Carlos Mencia, aka Ned Arnel Holness was charged in with 12 felony counts of tax evasion: six felony counts of failure to file personal income tax with the intent to evade tax and six felony counts of failure to file corporate income tax with the intent to evade tax.
If convicted as charged, Mencia faces up to 11 years and four months in state prison.
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