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By ANDREW DALTON, AP Entertainment Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Comedian Carlos Mencia has pleaded not guilty to 12 felony charges alleging he failed to report or pay taxes on more than $8 million in earnings.<\/p>\n

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The 58-year-old Mencia appeared behind glass in a custody area of a Los Angeles County court at his arraignment on Monday, when a judge also reduced his bail from $250,000 to $50,000.<\/p>\n

Mencia had been in jail since his arrest on Thursday. Court documents show that he has now posted bail, but it\u2019s not clear whether he has been released.<\/p>\n

Emails seeking comment from an attorney representing the comedian were not immediately answered.<\/p>\n

He was charged with six felony counts of failure to file personal income tax with the intent to evade taxes \u2014 one each for the years 2019 to 2024 \u2014 and six similar counts for corporate taxes.<\/p>\n

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When he announced the charges, District Attorney Nathan Hochman called Mencia \u201cone of California\u2019s biggest tax scofflaws,\u201d saying he owes more than $300,000 in state taxes on income totaling $8.7 million.<\/p>\n

If he\u2019s convicted of all 12 counts he could get more than 11 years in prison.<\/p>\n

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The charges are the first filed under the district attorney\u2019s new Business Tax Fraud Unit that was established in May by Hochman, a former longtime prosecutor of tax cases.<\/p>\n

Born Ned Arnel Holness in Honduras and raised in East Los Angeles, Mencia began doing stand-up in LA clubs in the late 1980s. By the early 2000s, he became one of the most popular comics in the U.S. and also did some acting in film and television. He had his own TV series, \u201cMind of Mencia,\u201d combining stand-up with sketches on Comedy Central from 2005 to 2008.<\/p>\n

Mencia still does regular stand-up shows, touring clubs and small theaters. He missed a series of Southern California shows while he was in jail.<\/p>\n

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