Girls Gone Wild founder Francis cops a plea

"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis took a plea deal on charges of filing false tax returns and agreed to pay back $249,705 to the government.

According to the Associated Press, Francis also took a  plea on a charge of bribing Nevada jail workers in exchange for food while he was serving time there. The deal came only weeks before a trial, the AP said, adding that Francis will receive credit for time served (about 10 months) with sentencing set for Nov. 6.

In a statement, Francis thanked Judge James Otero  and noted that he has a lot of catching up to do at work. "Demand for the Girls Gone Wild brand has grown tremendously in the past 12 years and we have a lot of work to do," he said. He also thanked his legal team for putting up with him. "The one thing I've learned about myself during this process is that I can be a difficult client."

Of course, readers of Claire Hoffman's famous Los Angeles Times expose on Francis already know that "difficult" may be a kind way of describing the soft-porn mogul.

-- Joe Flint

Comments

[mark shapiro]

This guy shows what a truly sick society we live in when he becomes a multi millionaire using a standard video camera to video young girls half naked. Those of us who went to college for years and then worked day in and day out for a meager salary take note...quit your job and do the same thing and just name it different like. young girls going berserk and you too can live the life of this creep who obviously has no concience and his legacy will be that he used others to make himself some money so he can live in a big house with 50 toilets when in fact, he is the biggest toilet of all.

[Sarah]

Thanks for the link to the L.A. Times article. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

[capitalism]

Sex sells, your jealous he thought of it first. ok so he's a creep laughing all the way to the bank on his 40 million dollar gulfstream jet.