IRS Auditor Pleads Guilty in Bribery Case
An Internal Revenue Service auditor has pleaded guilty in federal court to soliciting a $25,000 bribe from a Century City lawyer in exchange for lowering his tax liability by $105,000, it was announced Wednesday.
Larry Lee Wilson, 42, of Alhambra, was arrested Sept. 18 after a meeting with the lawyer in which he allegedly accepted an envelope containing $15,000 in cash. The attorney was secretly cooperating with IRS internal affairs investigators.
Wilson also pleaded guilty to preparing a false IRS report on the lawyer’s tax liability.
Still pending against Wilson is one extortion count in the case and two other counts involving a $32,000 bribe he allegedly sought in 1997 from an accountant.
Wilson is to be sentenced Feb. 22 by U.S. District Judge Christina A. Snyder. He could receive up to 20 years in prison.
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