Jersey Shore's Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino Indicted for Tax Fraud

There’s trouble at the Jersey Shore tonight, folks. Former Jersey Shore star Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino and his brother/manager Marc have both been indicted for tax fraud.

According to ABC News, the two were charged with conspiracy to defraud the government, among other charges:

In addition, Marc was charged with three counts of filing false tax returns for 2010-2012, while Mike was charged with two. Mike, 32, was also charged with failing to file a tax return for 2011, when he allegedly earned $1,955,757.

“According to the indictment, Michael and Marc Sorrentino filed false tax returns that incorrectly reported millions made from promotions and appearances,” U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman told ABC station WABC in New York City. “The brothers allegedly also claimed costly clothes and cars as business expenses and funneled company money into personal accounts. The law is absolutely clear: telling the truth to the IRS is not optional.”

A lawyer for Marc Sorrentino told ABC the charges were “fiction” and the government was relying on the word of a “disgraced” former accountant.

Sorrentino was in in court on Wednesday afternoon and was released on $250,000 bond, according to TMZ:.

TMZ has learned he will also be subject to random drug testing, and is prohibited from drinking any alcohol … pending his trial. Mike’s attorney says the sobriety condition was put in place because Mike went to rehab back in 2012 for pain pills.

Remember guys, it’s “gym, tan, laundry, defraud the US government.”

[ABC News/TMZ]

According to W Magazine:

“At that time, he was in Chicago shooting this past spring’s Divergent. “I didn’t have an interesting part, and I’d taken the film for business reasons: It was the first movie I’d done that was going to have an international audience. I called my agent and said, ‘This sucks.'”