FORMER CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR SENTENCED FOR WILLFUL FAILURE TO PAY TAXES

Dannis Adamson, 57, a Chubbuck resident and a former candidate for governor, will serve 27 months in federal prison for willful failure to pay federal taxes, U.S. Attorney Tom Moss announced.

Adamson was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill at the Federal Courthouse in Pocatello. Following his prison sentence, Adamson will serve three years on supervised release. Judge Winmill ordered Adamson to pay over seven million dollars in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. The amount of restitution owed to the Internal Revenue Service consists of tax periods from June 2001 through December 2003 and March 2005 through June of 2007.

Adamson entered a guilty plea to willful failure to pay federal taxes in October 2008.

Adamson owned and operated Northwest Bec Corporation, a business operating out of Chubbuck, Idaho, which managed six nursing home facilities in California. In the plea agreement, Adamson admitted that during the third quarter of 2001, he deducted and collected federal income withholding taxes and employees’ portions of Social Security and Medicare from his employees of the nursing home facilities, but failed to pay over the funds to the Internal Revenue Services.

Adamson ran for Governor of Idaho in 2006.