Rap Mogul Knight Gets $6M Tax Bill
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Published · reached Usenet July 13, 2002
Rap Mogul Knight Gets $6M Tax Bill Sat Jul 13,11:24 AM ET
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Internal Revenue Service has sent rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight a $6 million income tax bill.
An attorney for Knight, owner of Tha Row Records, formerly known as Death Row Records, said the government sent a collection notice this week regarding taxes owed in 1997.
That was during the time period Knight was serving a five-year sentence for violating his probation after getting involved in a fight the night Death Row Records rapper Tupac Shakur was killed in Las Vegas.
"(Knight) is a hardworking citizen and meets all his responsibilities," lawyer Arthur Barens said Friday. "He intends to respond. He plans to pay it."
IRS spokesman Victor Omelczenko declined comment.
The collection notice arrived just a few months after Knight's former attorney, David E. Kenner, 60, of Los Angeles, was sentenced to three years probation after pleading guilty to tax evasion charges.
Kenner admitted he failed to disclose that he made $4.1 million in 1994. That case was connected to a six-year racketeering probe by the Justice Department, which focused on Death Row Records. Knight never was charged.