Chiselling petty tax fraud, which is both a crazy thing for a super rich person to bother with, right? and it turns out that is exactly the kind of crime that superrich people think they can get away with and that they can t get caught for particularly if they are brazen about it. leona helmsley was having her business pay or provide for her personal living expenses including the salaries for her maids, her private vacation homes in the renovations, even the food there. she had the business pay for all of it instead of her paying for it that meant nothing came out of her pocket, and the business gets to deduct all of that for tax purposes. she was convicted on 33 counts, peoples séamus lee shouted at her on the courthouse steps, she went to prison in 1982. when she got out of prison she had community service hours to perform, she apparently tried
leona holmes lee? remember her she went to prison, she was a multibillion actual multi billionaire for real, she was president of the hotel line which was a high end luxury group of two or three dozen hotels including the park lane in new york city and the palace. she, herself, appeared in ads for some of her hotels. bragging about how rich she was and how exacting she was and how she needed absolutely the best service and all the most luxurious stuff, and so she