Hotel Executive Pleads Guilty in International Tax Evasion Scheme as U.S. Tries to Extradite Two Other Defendants

On September 5, 2003, Tollman-Hundley Hotels? executive Brett G. Tollman pleaded guilty to his part in a tax evasion in which he received more than $2.7 million in unreported compensation from a British Virgin Islands travel-and-tourism company. Tollman was also charged with tax fraud, conspiracy and filing a false tax return. The indictment cited four other individuals, including Tollman?s father, who is currently a fugitive. One of the defendants had already been arrested in Australia and currently resisting extradition, reflecting the increasingly global nature of tax crimes.