A former police officer and one-time prison guard was sentenced to 10 months in prison for not paying taxes on money he made as a strip club bouncer in this Chicago-area community.
Marcus McBryde, 39, of Olympia Fields, Ill., was convicted of failing to report $35,000 in cash he made as a bouncer at the Skybox in Harvey and at Cowboys in Markham, the Daily Southtown reported last week.
Jurors took less than an hour to convict McBryde after a two-day trial held earlier this year.
McBryde claimed in his 2002 tax return that he made $24,000, but prosecutors said he had actually made $44,000. McBryde also didn’t report about $16,000 he made from other strip clubs in 2002.
Assistant U.S. Attorney April Perry said that because McBryde lied on the witness stand and because he was a former police officer requires a harsher sentence is usually handed down in similar cases.
McBryde had been a prison guard for 12 years at Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill and was also a part time police officer in Phoenix. He had also served with the Robbins Police Department.
McBryde was one of 15 current and former police officers who were facing tax charges last year. All had worked for $20 per hour at two south suburban strip clubs or the Heavenly Bodies club in Elk Grove Village.
