Chiropractor pleads guilty to filing false tax return
By Times Staff Writer
Published March 24, 2004
TAMPA - A Palm Harbor chiropractor has pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Terry Lynn McNight, 47, of Hudson faces up to three years in prison, a $250,000 fine and one year of court supervision, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. McNight, owner of McNight Chiropractic Clinic, lied about advertising expenses on his clinic's 1999 federal income tax return. According to a plea agreement filed in Tampa federal court, McNight admitted to claiming more than $80,000 in advertising expenses for his practice at 36310 U.S. 19 N, when, in fact, he spent almost nothing.
McNight told federal prosecutors he used a Costa Rican group that sells, implements and manages so-called tax reduction strategies to falsify his clinic's return.
That organization, Anderson's Ark and Associates, is a multinational, membership-based organization that, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, has assisted thousands of clients in evading income taxes and laundering money. Complaints pending in federal court say the organization obtained approximately $28-million in illegal tax refunds for more than 1,500 clients from 1998 to 2001.
