Stanley S. Tollman, a multimillionaire hotel executive who once controlled the Days Inn chain, pleaded guilty on Friday to tax evasion charges

Stanley S. Tollman, a multimillionaire hotel executive who once controlled the Days Inn chain, pleaded guilty on Friday to tax evasion charges and agreed to pay a total of $105 million to the government to settle the fraud case against him.He was also sentenced to one day of probation, federal prosecutors said.Mr. Tollman, 78, and his wife Beatrice Nina Tollman were accused of earning “approximately $18 million in income that he knowingly failed to report to the Internal Revenue Service,” said Michael J. Garcia, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York.Mr. Tollman entered his guilty plea via video link from London, Mr. Garcia said in a statement. Last year, a British judge refuse to approve Mr. Tollman’s extradition to the United States, citing Mrs. Tollman’s poor health and questions about whether Mr. Tollman could get a fair trial.For much of the 1990s, Mr. and Mrs. Tollman were conspicuous figures in high society in New York, Palm Beach, Fla., and Litchfield County, Conn.Federal prosecutors had pursued the Tollmans for more than six years. They were accused of receiving $18 million in income through offshore bank accounts from 1994 to 1999 that they did not report to the I.R.S. The couple denied wrongdoing. Mr. Tollman was also accused of defrauding lenders.By pleading guilty to tax fraud, Mr. Tollman agreed to pay $60.4 million in restitution to the I.R.S., including back taxes, interest and fraud penalties, Mr. Garcia said.Mr. Tollman also agreed to pay $44.7 million to settle a separate civil forfeiture action brought by the government in 2002 accusing him and six other men of a $100 million bank fraud. Four of the men were convicted in 2004 and two pleaded guilty.<br />As part of the plea agreement, the United States Attorney’s Office dropped the bank fraud charge and other remaining charges against Mr. Tollman and a separate tax fraud charge brought against Mrs. Tollman.

Stanley S. Tollman, a multimillionaire hotel executive who once controlled the Days Inn chain, pleaded guilty on Friday to tax evasion charges

Stanley S. Tollman, a multimillionaire hotel executive who once controlled the Days Inn chain, pleaded guilty on Friday to tax evasion charg...

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