A Riverside County man was sentenced Thursday to greater than a 12 months in jail for tax fraud after promoting memorabilia signed by comedian ebook legend and Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee, in accordance with authorities.
Mac Martin Anderson, a 59-year-old Corona resident, was sentenced to a 12 months and sooner or later in federal jail after allegedly getting greater than $1.2 million in proceeds that he by no means reported to the IRS, in accordance with a information launch from the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the Central District of California. Anderson was additionally ordered to pay $482,833 in restitution.
Anderson pleaded responsible in March to 2 counts of willfully subscribing to a false tax return, in accordance with authorities. Between 2015 and 2028, Anderson had a private relationship with Lee and offered Marvel objects that had Lee’s autograph to sellers, brokers and followers.
Anderson received an revenue of about $1.236 million from promoting the memorabilia between 2015 and 2018 and admitted that the tax that was due was about $482,833, in accordance with the discharge.
Lee helped spearhead Marvel Comics’ transformation within the Sixties right into a powerhouse model. He helped introduce Spider-Man to Marvel in August 1962. He was later credited as affiliate producer on films starring Marvel characters together with Iron Man, X-Males and Captain America, along with Spider-Man.
