A Riverside County man who sold memento signed by Marvel Comics publisher Stan Lee pleaded guilty to committing tax fraud over $1.2 million.
The Justice Department said Corona’s Mac Martin Anderson, 59, pleaded guilty to two counts of knowingly registering a false tax return on Thursday.
The felony is sentenced to a maximum statutory prison sentence of three years per charge, the DOJ noted.
According to his judicial agreement, Anderson had a personal relationship with Lee, selling Marvel-related items, including Lee’s signatures, to various dealers, brokers and fans at the Comic Convention from 2015 to 2018.
Anderson generally accepted payments from buyers in the form of cash or checks, the DOJ said.
“These payments were considered normal income by the IRS and should have been reported on Anderson’s income tax returns each year,” the official said at release.
For each of the four years in which Anderson made a profit from selling this memorabilia, he made about $289,460, $452,269, $414,166 and $80,590 respectively.
In total, the DOJ said it allowed Anderson to make around $1,236,485 in reported revenue from selling mementos.
Anderson now agrees to pay compensation to the IRS in the same amount he owes.
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