Ronald Isley, of the Isley Brothers, obviously, has been sentenced to three years in prison for multiple counts of tax fraud, and has also been ordered to pay more than $3.1million to the US tax service for what was described as "pathological evasion". During the course of his trial, the US district court heard how the 64 year old musician cashed royalty cheques made out to his brother, O' Kelly, who died back in 1996, and how Isley spent millions of dollars, the profits from undeclared performances, on a yacht and two homes.
US District Court Judge Dean Pregerson refused to give the Grammy-award winning singer a more lenient sentence on the grounds of his ill health, despite the fact that he has put assets on sale in order to pay monies owed to the Internal Revenue Service. Isley, who is expecting a baby with his new wife Kandy, had a stroke last year, and has also recently suffered from kidney cancer.