{"id":166421,"date":"2025-02-12T09:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=166421"},"modified":"2025-02-12T09:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:12:09","slug":"rodney-kings-attorney-gets-prison-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=166421","title":{"rendered":"Rodney King’s Attorney Gets Prison Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Attorney Milton C. Grimes<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Can We All Get Along?”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

Rodney King\u2019s Former Attorney Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Evading Payment of More Than $7.2 Million in Income Tax Over Two Decades<\/strong><\/a>
\nFebruary 12, 2025 \/ By LawFuel Editors<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES \u2013 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On Father’s Day, June 17, 2012, King was found dead underwater at the bottom of his swimming pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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