Helio Castroneves: Fast and loose with the IRS?

Dance your way out of this, Twinkle Toes....

Helio Castroneves, the most successful and charismatic driver in Indycar racing, two-time Indy 500 winner, as well as the victor in some dancing competition with half-naked women, was indicted Thursday on charges of income tax evasion. The U.S. Justice Department alleges that Castroneves -- Helio to just about everybody on the planet -- used an offshore account to hide income from sponsors and Penske Racing. Roger Penske is not going to like that.

Helio faces up to 35 years in federal prison if convicted of this tax chicanery, or chicane.

Full item here. PHOTO: PENSKE RACING.

-- Dan Neil

Comments

[Joe Silva]

Now, we're facing some of the toughest times America has ever seen so, for this guy who has won many, many millions and, I assume, has slept w/ some of the hottest women on the planet earth to just simply screw us out of our tax money is just plain wrong and greedy. I surely hope he is innocent b/c otherwise he isn't going to find a lot of sympathy among the American public. They are going to throw the book at him if he's convicted.