{"id":2467623,"date":"2026-06-19T21:25:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2467623"},"modified":"2026-06-19T21:25:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:25:42","slug":"carlos-mencia-faces-12-felony-charges-for-unreported-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/carlos-mencia-faces-12-felony-charges-for-unreported-income\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Mencia Faces 12 Felony Charges For Unreported Income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"cli cli-embed cli-embed--full-width js-no-inject\">\n<div class=\"js-react-hydrator\" style=\"display:contents\" data-component-name=\"YouTube\" data-component-id=\"6742\" data-component-props=\"{&quot;itemType&quot;:&quot;video&quot;,&quot;isLiveblogEmbed&quot;:false,&quot;index&quot;:0,&quot;contentIndexByType&quot;:1,&quot;contentListType&quot;:&quot;embed&quot;,&quot;code&quot;:&quot;&lt;div style=\\&quot;left: 0; width: 100%; height: 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});\\r\\n&lt;\/script&gt;\\r\\n&quot;],&quot;adCount&quot;:0,&quot;midArticleAdPartner&quot;:null},&quot;isCollectionEmbed&quot;:false}\">\n<div class=\"cli-embed__embed-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Comedian Carlos Mencia charged with 12 felony tax counts: Authorities\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/75FZf09hZ5s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Comedian Carlos Mencia was arrested Thursday and charged with 12 felony charges for failing to report or pay taxes on more than $8 million in earnings, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced the charges at a news conference where he called Mencia \u201cone of California\u2019s biggest tax scofflaws.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>The 58-year-old stand-up comic was charged with six felony counts of failure to file personal income tax with the intent to evade taxes \u2014 one each for the years 2019 to 2024 \u2014 and six similar counts for corporate taxes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Mencia owes more than $300,000 in state taxes on income totaling $8.7 million, Hochman said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>He has not entered a plea, and emails sent to his attorney seeking comment was not immediately answered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Mencia was arrested at his Los Angeles home at about 7 a.m., authorities said. He remained in custody Thursday afternoon and was being held on $250,000 bail. He is expected to make his first court appearance on Monday. If he\u2019s convicted of all counts he could get more than 11 years in prison, along with paying the tax bills and interest that will almost double the total.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>The charges are the first filed under the new district attorney\u2019s new Business Tax Fraud Unit that was established in May by Hochman, a former longtime prosecutor of tax cases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Mencia regularly paid taxes before 2019, Hochman said. He was sent 78 notices from the state about his delinquent bills, with no response. The charges deal only with state taxes. Hochman said the IRS has not informed his office of Mencia\u2019s federal tax status.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Born Ned Arnel Holness in Honduras and raised in East Los Angeles, Mencia began doing stand-up in LA clubs in the late 1980s. By the early 2000s, he became one of the most popular comics in the U.S. and also did some acting in film and television. He had his own TV series, \u201cMind of Mencia,\u201d combining stand-up with sketches on Comedy Central from 2005 to 2008.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Hochman pointed out at the news conference that on the show in 2007, Mencia said, \u201cMaybe I\u2019m different, but I think taxes are a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>His comedy most often dealt with race, class and Latino culture. His career took a downward turn as he was hit with accusations from many fellow comedians of joke theft, which he always denied, from other comics. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-tariffs-criticism-musk-rogan-portnoy-ackman-7ee3cda2fe172d707af93e042e2009dd\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Joe Rogan\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a35a29ee4b057a50cee03ba\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-tariffs-criticism-musk-rogan-portnoy-ackman-7ee3cda2fe172d707af93e042e2009dd\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\">Joe Rogan<\/a>, then best known as a stand-up comic, confronted him on a club stage on the issue in a video that went viral in 2007. Mencia had long discussions on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ap.org\/news-highlights\/spotlights\/2025\/marc-maron-ends-his-podcast-with-final-guest-barack-obama-after-16-years-and-nearly-1700-episodes\/\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Marc Maron\u2019s podcast\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a35a29ee4b057a50cee03ba\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.ap.org\/news-highlights\/spotlights\/2025\/marc-maron-ends-his-podcast-with-final-guest-barack-obama-after-16-years-and-nearly-1700-episodes\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\">Marc Maron\u2019s podcast<\/a> on the alleged plagiarism, acknowledging that he may have absorbed others\u2019 material but denying outright theft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>He still does regular stand-up shows, touring clubs and small theaters. He\u2019s scheduled to do a series of dates in Southern California this week and Las Vegas next week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Comedian Carlos Mencia was arrested Thursday and charged with 12 felony charges for failing to report or pay taxes on more than $8 million in earnings, prosecutors said. 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