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From: ravenseye10/23/2007 5:20:09 PM
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Jailed Girls Gone Wild founder turns to online ads in legal case
By Melissa NelsonAssociated Press
The smiling founder of the Girls Gone Wild video empire stands shoulder to shoulder with President Bush, the White House in the background, in a series of online advertisements running on newspaper Web sites from Pensacola to Tallahassee.

Joe Francis, 34, engineered the ad campaign to gain support from any audience that will listen to his twisted legal story, which began in Panama City Beach in 2003 and now has him in a Nevada jail cell.

"Marketing is what I do best," Francis told The Associated Press in a telephone interview....
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...has been in jail since April when he was cited for contempt after yelling at attorneys during mediation in a federal lawsuit brought by women who were underaged when his production company filmed them in 2003.

That lawsuit has since been settled, but Francis violated probation on criminal charges related to the 2003 filming when he was charged with having contraband - $700 and prescription anti-anxiety medication - in the Bay County jail.

Federal officials then extradited him to Nevada to face tax evasion charges.

Francis could bond out of jail on the federal charges, but would face extradition back to Florida to face trial on four felony charges...

...Francis would rather stay in jail in Nevada than return to Florida....

...The federal indictment handed up in April in Nevada alleges his companies - Mantra Films Inc. and its marketing arm, Sands Media Inc. - claimed more than $20 million in false deductions on the companies' 2002 and 2003 corporate income tax returns.

The indictment also charges that Francis used offshore bank accounts and entities purportedly owned by others to conceal income he earned during the same time.
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