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Rodney King’s Attorney Gets Prison Time

by Steve Balm••25
Attorney Milton C. Grimes

“Can We All Get Along?”

Those were the famous words uttered by Rodney King after the riots broke out following the aquittal of the police officers that beat him – the beatdown captured on video for all to see.

Well, King’s lawyer Milton C. Grimes was sentenced to serve time in prison – 18 months to be exact – for evading payment of more than $7.2 Million in income tax over two decades.

Rodney King’s Former Attorney Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Evading Payment of More Than $7.2 Million in Income Tax Over Two Decades
February 12, 2025 / By LawFuel Editors

LOS ANGELES – Milton C. Grimes, a long-time Los Angeles lawyer, was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for evading the payment of more than $7.2 million in federal and state taxes over a period of more than two decades.

Grimes was sentenced by United States District Judge Stanley Blumenfeld Jr., who also ordered him to pay $7,236,556 in restitution, both to the IRS and to the California Franchise Tax Board.

In October 2024, Grimes pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion relating to his 2014 taxes and admitted that he failed to pay $1,690,922 to the IRS.

On Father’s Day, June 17, 2012, King was found dead underwater at the bottom of his swimming pool.

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25 thoughts on “Rodney King’s Attorney Gets Prison Time”

  1. Meanwhile, California will be carrying those taxes due as a receivable on the State’s books, as if they are ever going to collect a dime. Same with the federal government. They have receivables that will never, ever be received and they still use them as assets or collateral.

    4. I would love to see the stats on how much the governments, state and federal, actually recover in restitution judgments. I bet it is less than 10%.

      1. The douchebag who torched USS Miami in Portsmouth about 10 years ago is also supposed to pay $400 million in restitution.
        I’m guessing the feds will recover something significantly less. Oh, and he ain’t even getting out for another 5 years.

  2. Drugs may make you strong enough to take a beat down by the cops but, they do not do a thing for your swimming skills.

  3. King got a $3.8 Million dollar settlement from the city of Los Angeles. I don’t mean to make light of this, but I did ask myself at the time – would I take a similar beatdown to get that much money?

    1. Before he became “Mrs. Establishment/The View on the radio” Howard Stern rightly referred to King as ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Millionaire”.

    3. When I was younger, I got my ass beat down quite a few times. I never did get any money for it. All I did was walk on the wrong side of the street going home from school in Los Angles. How stupid of me for not knowing where I should walk. A 7-year-old should know that.
      I’m really glad my parents left that shit hole state.

      1. Of course this was around 30 years before Rodney King. So I guess Los Angles got a bit worse than when I went school there.

      2. When I was a kid I used to get beat up on the way home
        from school. I asked my dad to teach me how to fight but
        he refused and said he didn’t want me fighting.
        So one day I picked up a rock and split the bullys head open.
        The parents of the bully hired a lawer and the school
        warned my parents that further aggression would get
        me expelled yada yada yada……

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        Odie @ 10:47

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