A Florida man was sentenced May 14 to two years in federal prison for evading about $2.4 million in income taxes related to his medical equipment sales, according to the Justice Department.
Roger Whitman generated millions of dollars between 2002 and 2018 from selling Rife machines, which “use energy waves to purportedly treat a wide range of medical conditions,” the department said. There is little evidence that Rife machines have a clinical benefit.
Mr. Whitman has not filed an individual income tax return since 1997 and has not made a tax payment since 2000, according to the department.
In addition to the prison sentence, a federal judge ordered Mr. Whitman to pay $2.3 million in restitution to the IRS.
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