Eglin capt. sentenced for hiring illegal aliens as club dancers (with DOCUMENT)
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October 01, 2009 5:45 PM
Angel McCurdy

PENSACOLA — A U.S. Air Force captain stationed at Eglin Air Force Base was sentenced Thursday on federal criminal charges involving filing false income tax returns and using illegal aliens as dancers at his night clubs.

Mario A. Jimenez, who pleaded guilty to the charges in July, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $60,000 in restitution and monetary assessments, ac-cording to a news release from the U.S. attorney’s office in Pensacola.

A two-year investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Air Force found that Jimenez, 37, and his father, Jose Jimenez Rodriguez, submitted false income tax returns and failed to report income generated from their two Latin night clubs in Pensacola and Fort Walton Beach, the release said.



The investigation also found that the clubs, known as “El Rancho Alegre,â€