Richard Hatch

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Hatch faces charges of tax evasion.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Richard Hatch, who won $1 million US on the first season of the reality show Survivor, was indicted Thursday for failing to pay taxes on his winnings.

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The new indictment charges Hatch with 10 counts including tax evasion, filing a false tax return, wire fraud, bank fraud and mail fraud. According to the indictment, his 2000 and 2001 tax returns omitted his income from the reality show, $327,000 he was paid to co-host a radio show and $28,000 in rent on a property he owns in Newport.

Hatch, 44, also was accused of misusing $36,500 from a nonprofit camp he set up, Horizon Bound.

If found guilty on all charges, he could face up to 75 years in prison and millions of dollars in fines.

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Wow, sucks to be him right now.

Arrogance finally caught up with him, I see. This should be very interesting.

Whatever happened to that whole deal about him being supposedly abusive to his son by making him job early in the morning or some such nonsense? The whole thing sounded so insane at the time.

[realitybug]

Hah. I don't feel bad for him at all.

[chiqui]

I wish he would just go away and quit appearing on every other reality show every time I turn around.

[Mutagen]

Karma's a bitch, ain't it, Hatchy boy?

[Binky]

I cannot believe the balls it took to not report the Survivor winnings to the IRS. The first year of Survivor was huge. It's like...Lance Armstrong not reporting his 7th Tour de France win (if that were taxable). Or Brad Pitt not reporting his divorce.

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75 years does seem a bit harsh for tax evasion, though. I mean, I thought rapists only usually got up to 25.

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I agree poorfrances. (By the way, love the Louise Brooks avatar)

But I can't believe Hatch, with how public he is, would think the IRS would'nt notice!

[crankie]

I got on the "Survivor" bus late. This summer, in reruns, actually. But I know it was huge at the time. There were stories everywhere. Even I, who never watched a single episode, knew who won and how much, just from media coverage.

How could he possibly think that the IRS wouldn't be looking at his returns???

And, is this the second indictment? I thought I'd heard something about this a couple of months ago. Maybe I just heard about the investigation? Either way, karma works!!

[billkenobi]

I think they installed a maximum sentence of 75 years so they could keep godfathers in jail