Metabolife owner sentenced to only 6 months

Even though his tax cheating was in the millions of dollars?

Source:  North County Times

Saturday, September 23, 2006
Metabolife owner sentenced for tax evasion

Excertps:

SAN DIEGO ---- A North County man who owns part of weight loss-oriented Metabolife International, Inc., was sentenced Thursday to six months in custody for evading millions of dollars in taxes.

U.S. District Court Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz also sentenced William Robert Bradley of Rancho Santa Fe to two years of supervised release that includes four months of home confinement and 1,000 hours of community service, authorities said.

According to assistant U.S. attorneys Phillip L.B. Halpern and Kyle W. Hoffman, Bradley used various schemes to avoid paying taxes, including diverting corporate profits, improperly classifying corporate income, failing to report personal income and using a charitable foundation to conceal income.

When Bradley pleaded guilty, the DOJ put out a strongly worded press release, in which United States Attorney Lam said, "Metabolife tried to cheat on its taxes, pure and simple, and corporate tax cheats do not receive special treatment."

Six months sounds like special treatment to me.