Opinion ID: 786706
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Heading: The Prosecutions of Carriere

Text: 11 The investigation commenced by Agent Whitaker in the Tallahassee video store resulted in multiple federal prosecutions of Carriere. The cash seized from the 1990 search of Multi-Media's offices produced a tax prosecution in the Northern District of Indiana. In August 1991, Carriere pled guilty to evading personal income taxes. He was sentenced principally to a three-year term of probation and a $250,000 fine. In April 1992, Carriere was charged with obscenity in the Northern District of Florida. Pursuant to Rule 20 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the case was transferred to the Central District of California, where Carriere pled guilty to an obscenity charge arising out of the obscene videos Multi-Media had shipped to Tallahassee. His sentence in that case included another three-year probationary term, with a special condition of four months in home detention, and a $3,000 fine. 12 In January 1994, Carriere was indicted yet again on obscenity charges, this time in the Western District of Kentucky. Facing the prospect of a prison sentence in what was his third federal prosecution in as many years, Carriere decided to offer his cooperation to the government. 13