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Originally Posted by Toby
There was a whole bunch more legal issues going on with regard to Francis. Tax evasion being the biggest one. It just wasn't all tied together in one nice tidy bundle.
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Toby, I think you are right on the money here. Failure to maintain records was just a nice passing charge instead of "production of child pornography", which producing a movie with a 17 year old might have been considered. It let the government extract it's pound of flesh without having to brand Joe Francis directly. Plea bargain, I think - I am sure pornlaw will correct me if I am wrong here.