Failure to report $1 million in income from marijuana business could land man in federal prison

Man pleads guilty to not reporting income from business and using money to buy luxury cars.

By Louis Llovio
| 4:30 p.m. February 14, 2022
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Tampa Bay-Lakeland

TAMPA — A Lithia man's life is up in smoke after learning the hard lesson that if you’re going to be in the marijuana business, you better report the income on your taxes.

Steven Brickner has pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return after failing to report more than $1 million in income he raised from investors for a marijuana growing and distribution enterprise.

He faces three years in the joint.