Owner of escort service in Richmond pleads guilty to tax fraud
Published: Aug. 13, 2008 at 12:19 PM EDT|Updated: Aug. 18, 2008 at 12:44 PM EDT
From NBC12 News
The owner of an escort service in Richmond and Virginia Beach has pleaded guilty to tax fraud.
Theresa Faye Hope, 54, faces three years in jail and $250,000 in fines.
Hope ran Aphrodite Incorporated.
The U.S. Attorney's Office says Hope understated the company's corporate income tax returns by more than $267,000.
She also understated her individual income tax returns by at least $52,000 for 2001 through 2004.
She is scheduled to be sentenced on November 7th.
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