The former office manager at Companions, a Salt Lake City escort service, was found guilty Tuesday of one count of tax evasion.
U.S. District Judge Dee Benson, who heard the case in January without a jury, ruled that 34-year-old Jodi Hoskins underreported the gross receipts for the Salt Lake City business on her 2002 individual income tax return. The judge said the government had proved that Hoskins intended to evade the payment of an additional $485,443 in taxes owed by her husband, Roy B. Hoskins, who owned and operated Companions until at least 2006.
Jodi Hoskins -- who also worked as a "phone girl" at Companions booking escorts for private sessions and bachelor parties -- faces a potential five-year prison sentence and a $250,000 fine. No sentencing date has been set.
Roy Hoskins, 36, pleaded guilty last May to two counts of attempted income tax evasion, admitting that he failed to report income received from Companions in 2001 and 2002. His sentencing is set for April 15.
At the January trial, Jodi Hoskins' attorney said his client saw only the signature page on the 2002 tax return and signed it in April 2003, even though she and Roy had gotten married just a few weeks before. The couple began divorce proceedings in Nevada before the trial.
