2014 Event Credit Suisse has pled guilty to criminal charges of assisting U.S. customers in tax fraud and evasion; however, the Swiss government will not allow the bank to cooperate with the U.S. government's request for the names of those customers 2013 Event After pleading guilty to a U.S. case of tax evasion, Wegelin and Co., the oldest bank in Switzerland, closes; the bank faces a fine of $57.8 million 2012 Event A Beijing court announces it will hear artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, held and gagged on tax evasion charges by the People's Republic of China 1997 Event Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion 1994 Event Darryl Strawberry pleads not guilty on tax evasion charges 1994 Event Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges 1994 Event Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion 1992 Event Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion 1992 Event Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion 1990 Event Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion 1986 Event House of Representatives impeaches Judge Harry E. Claiborne on tax evasion 1982 Event Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion 1982 Event Unification Church founder Reverend Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion 1980 Event Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $20,000 1979 Event Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion 1979 Event Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months 1979 Event Rocker Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion 1973 Event Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion and resigns 1971 Event Supreme Court (8-0) overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali 1967 Event Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion 1932 Event Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary 1931 Event Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion 1920 Birthday Leona Helmsley, born in New York, billionaire hotel operator, real estate investor, convicted of tax evasion
