SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP)–The owner of an Arnolds Park business has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison.
42-year-old Veronica Fairchild, of Canistota, South Dakota has been convicted for not paying taxes on more than $600,000 earned from exotic dances over four years. She is the owner of the Boji Nites gentleman’s club. The Argus Leader says she has also been ordered to pay almost $215,000 in back taxes.
Prosecutors say Fairchild filed late tax returns in 2010 from 2005 through 2008 and claimed the unreported income from performing private shows as an exotic dancer was a gift.
On Wednesday, Fairchild and her family pleaded for a probation sentence. Fairchild has three children, including an infant daughter. She said that she lost her husband last year and didn’t want to leave her children without a parent
