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Two Associates Admit Guilt in Florida Businessman's IRS Case.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2001

By Ramsey Campbell, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 15--Two associates of former Mount Dora businessman Ed Roy pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. federal court to charges they obstructed an Internal Revenue Service investigation,

Reinhard Mueller and Newman Johnston III both admitted guilt and could face up to three years in jail and a $250,000 fine each.

Another Roy associate, Phillip Asher, pleaded guilty to the same charge last week. All three have agreed to cooperate with federal investigators, who are seeking to have the flamboyant businessman extradited from Canada, where he fled to avoid trial in the United States.

Roy, who faces charges of tax evasion and obstruction of justice, is accused...

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