Owner of Exotic Bar Sentenced in Income Tax Fraud
The owner of an Oxnard exotic bar has been sentenced in U. S. District Court in Los Angeles to four months in federal prison, four months of home detention and two years of probation for filing false tax returns from 1988-90, Justice Department officials said.
Lynda Aguilera, 45, of Ventura, owner of the Fantasia Nite Club on Oxnard Boulevard, was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty May 24 to willfully failing to report substantial gross receipts on her individual tax returns, said Margo Thole, an assistant U. S. attorney who prosecuted the case.
Prosecutors estimate that Aguilera owed in excess of $70,000 in uncollected taxes.
The case against Aguilera was the result of an investigation conducted by the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service.
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