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[[Image:SALVATORE LEONE Just a Business Man.jpg|left|thumb|Just a Businessman with poor numeracy;<br>[[Salvatore Leone]].]] | [[Image:SALVATORE LEONE Just a Business Man.jpg|left|thumb|Just a Businessman with poor numeracy;<br>[[Salvatore Leone]].]] | ||
[[Salvatore Leone]] walked free from a federal court yesterday, as the case against him collapsed. Leone, who had been on trial for tax evasion, a case that the state prosecutor intended to turn into a racketeering charge, smiled as he walked free from the courts in downtown [[Liberty City]]. Leone had been on trial after Inland Revenue experts found serious accounting irregularities in the Leone books, including $450,000 of undeclared income. | [[Salvatore Leone]] walked free from a federal court yesterday, as the case against him collapsed. Leone, who had been on trial for tax evasion, a case that the state prosecutor intended to turn into a racketeering charge, smiled as he walked free from the courts in downtown [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]]. Leone had been on trial after Inland Revenue experts found serious accounting irregularities in the Leone books, including $450,000 of undeclared income. | ||
The state had been very confident of making the charges stick, the prosecution's case being based on the large sum of undeclared income. The jury, however, unequivocally accepted Mr. Leone's explanation that this money had not been accrued by racketeering, but by the illegal importing of tomato sauce, from Mr. Leone's hometown of Palermo, Sicily. Although Mr. Leone was subsequently found guilty of a minor charge of importing fresh foodstuffs without a license and paid a cursory fine, as well as all unpaid revenue, he has stayed out of prison again. | The state had been very confident of making the charges stick, the prosecution's case being based on the large sum of undeclared income. The jury, however, unequivocally accepted Mr. Leone's explanation that this money had not been accrued by racketeering, but by the illegal importing of tomato sauce, from Mr. Leone's hometown of Palermo, Sicily. Although Mr. Leone was subsequently found guilty of a minor charge of importing fresh foodstuffs without a license and paid a cursory fine, as well as all unpaid revenue, he has stayed out of prison again. | ||
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*[http://www.rockstargames.com/libertytree/apr2001/story1.html SALVATORE LEONE: "Just a Business Man" article] | *[http://www.rockstargames.com/libertytree/apr2001/story1.html SALVATORE LEONE: "Just a Business Man" article] | ||
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