A wealthy Golden Beach woman who owns the Gilly vending machine business was sentenced on Friday to 2-1/2 years in prison after agreeing to pay $1.9 million in back taxes to the federal government for failing to report a vast sum of income hidden for years in foreign bank accounts.
Gilda B. Rosenberg, 60, was ordered to surrender to prison authorities in late October by U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom, who gave the woman a lower sentence than prosecutors sought for her tax-evasion conviction in Miami federal court. Bloom also imposed a $30,000 fine.
Under her plea agreement, Rosenberg must also pay a penalty of $5.85 million to the Internal Revenue Service to resolve her civil liability for not filing reports on her foreign bank accounts with the Department of Treasury…