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    Daniel Adams

    Filmmaker Daniel Adams was the first Hollywood figure to go to jail for exploiting loopholes in a state production tax incentive program. He opens up to Kim Masters about why he did it and how, after 21 months in prison, he hopes he can make films that will help him pay back this $4.3 million he owes Massachusetts.

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    By Kim Masters • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Filmmaker Daniel Adams was the first Hollywood figure to go to jail for exploiting loopholes in a state production tax incentive program. He opens up to Kim Masters about why he did it and how, after 21 months in prison, he hopes he can make films that will help him pay back this $4.3 million he owes Massachusetts.

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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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